The Orbit Problem in Higher Dimensions
Ventsislav Chonev ( University of Oxford )
- 11:30 1st May 2013 ( week 2, Trinity Term 2013 )051
We consider higher-dimensional versions of Kannan and Lipton's Orbit Problem -- determining whether a target vector space V may be reached from a starting point x under repeated applications of a linear transformation A. Answering two questions posed by Kannan and Lipton in the 1980s, we show that when V has dimension one, this problem is solvable in polynomial time, and when V has dimension two or three, the problem is in NP^RP.