On the Complexity of Modulo-q Arguments and the Chevalley-Warning Theorem

Mika Göös; Pritish Kamath; Katerina Sotiraki; Manolis Zampetakis

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On the Complexity of Modulo-q Arguments and the Chevalley-Warning Theorem

Mika Göös·Pritish Kamath·Katerina Sotiraki·Manolis Zampetakis

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We study the search problem class $\mathrm{PPA}_q$ defined as a modulo-$q$ analog of the well-known $\textit{polynomial parity argument}$ class $\mathrm{PPA}$ introduced by Papadimitriou '94. Our first result shows that this class can be characterized in terms of $\mathrm{PPA}_p$ for prime $p$. Our main result is to establish that an $\textit{explicit}$ version of a search problem associated to the Chevalley--Warning theorem is complete for $\mathrm{PPA}_p$ for prime $p$. This problem is $\textit{natural}$ in that it does not explicitly involve circuits as part of the input. It is the first such complete problem for $\mathrm{PPA}_p$ when $p \ge 3$. Finally we discuss connections between Chevalley-Warning theorem and the well-studied $\textit{short integer solution}$ problem and survey the structural properties of $\mathrm{PPA}_q$.

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Mika Göös, Pritish Kamath, Katerina Sotiraki, Manolis Zampetakis. 2019-12-10. On the Complexity of Modulo-q Arguments and the Chevalley-Warning Theorem. https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04467

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