GapSVP ⇒ LWE

GapSVP implies LWE.

Statement

Migrated verbatim from learning-with-errors § Reduction to lattice problems:

The hardness of LWE rests on worst-case lattice problems via a quantum reduction — Reg05:

  • Solving decision (or search) LWE on a noticeable fraction of inputs is at least as hard as quantum-approximating the Shortest Vector Problem (GapSVP) and the Shortest Independent Vectors Problem (SIVP) to within polynomial factors in the worst case

Migrated verbatim from learning-with-errors § Reduction to lattice problems:

  • Classical reductions (without quantum steps) are known for certain parameter regimes — see subsequent work by Peikert

Notes

class: unstated: no citing page says which notion of reduction is meant. Recording a class the wiki does not state would add a claim.

This relation is stated on 2 pages; the statements above are all of them.

Citations disagree across pages: [object Object]

Recorded during migration and not fixed — these are claims about the source text, not changes to it:

  • This bullet packs TWO independent worst-case-to-average-case reductions (from GapSVP and from SIVP). They are disjunctive, not conjunctive, and are recorded as two separate records with the same verbatim.
  • GapSVP has no wiki page; identifier is ad hoc.
  • Verbatim range includes line 84 because the Reg05 citation sits on the lead-in sentence, not on the bullet.
  • Cited only as “see subsequent work by Peikert” — no wikilink, no reference page. CLAUDE.md requires a citation for a claim of this kind.
  • Parameter regimes left entirely unspecified (“certain parameter regimes”), so the edge cannot be parameterized.
  • The target worst-case problem is not restated on this bullet.