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fdej | 4 years ago

Yes, the worst-case complexity is exponential in N, but the wording in the article could lead you to believe that no explicit exponential bound is known, which is false.

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tgflynn|4 years ago

Do you have a reference for that claim ?

fdej|4 years ago

Correcting myself, the bound is worse than exponential (so read "at least exponential in N"), but the point I wanted to make is that it is explicit.

Again, this follows from the general theory of algebraic numbers: the degree and height of a sum, product or root of algebraic numbers can be bounded explicitly (resultants + Mignotte bound for factors), and finally root separation bounds can be applied to the resulting polynomial.

adgjlsfhk1|4 years ago

This is false. PSPACE is in EXPTIME.