Norm-Query Complexity of Algorithmic Problems in Finite-Dimensional p-adic Normed Spaces

Abstract

We study the deterministic norm-query complexity of computational problems in finite-dimensional vector spaces over $\mathbb{Q}_p$ equipped with an arbitrary ultrametric norm. For orthogonalization, we prove that no uniform finite query bound depending only on the dimension exists: for every deterministic algorithm that produces an $N$-orthogonal basis for every ultrametric norm $N$, the number of norm queries is unbounded as $N$ varies. We then study the Longest Vector Problem (LVP) for a rank-$m$ $p$-adic lattice. By adapting a brute-force search to the general norm-query setting and eliminating the scalar redundancy among nonzero coefficient vectors modulo $p$, we obtain an algorithm using exactly $(p^m-1)/(p-1)$ norm queries for $m\ge 2$, and prove that no deterministic norm-query algorithm can use fewer queries in the worst case. Finally, we consider the Closest Vector Problem (CVP). Apart from the trivial cases in which no norm query is needed, we prove that the deterministic worst-case norm-query complexity of the CVP is unbounded, even when the lattice and the target vector are fixed.