A cubic algorithm for computing the Hermite normal form of a nonsingular integer matrix
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A Las Vegas randomized algorithm is given to compute the Hermite normal form of a nonsingular integer matrix A of dimension n. The algorithm uses quadratic integer multiplication and cubic matrix multiplication and has running time bounded by O(n^3 (log n + log ||A||)^2(log n)^2) bit operations, where ||A||= max_ij |A_ij| denotes the largest entry of A in absolute value. A variant of the algorithm that uses pseudo-linear integer multiplication is given that has running time (n^3 log ||A||)^1+o(1) bit operations, where the exponent "+o(1)" captures additional factors c_1 (log n)^c_2 (loglog ||A||)^c_3 for positive real constants c_1,c_2,c_3.
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