Research



Surveys


How easy is it to describe hard polynomials?: Technical Perspective [Opinion]
Communications of the ACM, vol.67(2), pp.100, 2024. (Invited by the editor). [pdf]


Research in theoretical computer science. [Big trends]
with Meena Mahajan and Madhavan Mukund
Communications of the ACM, 62(11), 92-95, 2019. (Invited by the editor). [pdf]


Progress on Polynomial Identity Testing-II.

Proceedings of the Workshop celebrating Somenath Biswas' 60th Birthday,
Perspectives in Computational Complexity, vol.26 of Progress in Computer Science and Applied Logic, 131-146, 2014. (Invited by the editor). [pdf]


Progress on Polynomial Identity Testing.
Bulletin of the EATCS, no.99, 49-79, October 2009. (Invited by the editor). [pdf]


Proceedings & Journals


Primes via Zeros: interactive proofs for testing primality of natural classes of ideals
with Abhibhav Garg and Rafael Oliveira
submitted, 2024. [pdf]    [talk]


MQuBS: A Short, Round-Optimal Blind Signature with Post-Quantum Security

with Dipayan Das, Anindya Ganguly and Angshuman Karmakar
submitted, 2024. [pdf]


Complexity of counting points on curves, and the factor P1(T) of the zeta function of surfaces
with Diptajit Roy and Madhavan Venkatesh
submitted, 2024. [pdf]


Learning the coefficients: A presentable version of border complexity and applications to circuit factoring
with C.S. Bhargav and Prateek Dwivedi
56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2024. [pdf]


Lower bounds for the sum of small-size algebraic branching programs
with C.S. Bhargav and Prateek Dwivedi

Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC), 2024. [pdf]
[Invited to the special issue of Theoretical Computer Science]


VDOO: A short, fast, post-quantum multivariate digital signature scheme
with Anindya Ganguly and Angshuman Karmakar

INDOCRYPT, vol.14460, pp.197-222, 2023. [pdf]  (It supersedes an earlier proposal: [pdf])


Improved lower bound, and proof barrier, for constant depth algebraic circuits
with C.S. Bhargav and Sagnik Dutta
47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS, 2022: 18:1-18:16. [pdf]
[Awarded Best Student paper]
(Accepted in ACM Transactions on Computation Theory, 2024)


Solving polynomial systems over non-fields and applications to modular polynomial factoring

with Sayak Chakrabarti
and Ashish Dwivedi
Journal of Symbolic Computation, vol.125, pp.102314, 2024. [pdf]


An effective description of the roots of multivariates mod pk and the related Igusa's local zeta function
with Sayak Chakrabarti

48th ISSAC, 2023: 135-144. [pdf]   [long]    [slides]


Derandomization via symmetric polytopes: Poly-time factorization of certain sparse polynomials
with Pranav Bisht.
42nd IARCS Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS, 2022: 9:1-9:19. [pdf]



Separated borders: Exponential-gap fanin-hierarchy theorem for approximative depth-3 circuits
with Pranjal Dutta
63rd
FOCS, 2022: 200-211. [pdf]


Explicit construction of q + 1 regular local Ramanujan graphs, for all prime-powers q
with Rishabh Batra and Devansh Shringi
Comput.Complex. 32(1): 2 (2023). [pdf]


Demystifying the border of depth-3 algebraic circuits
with Pranjal Dutta and Prateek Dwivedi
62nd
FOCS, 2021: 92-103. [pdf]
(Invited in the Special Issue on FOCS'21 of the journal SICOMP, 2021. [pdf])


Deterministic identity testing paradigms for bounded top-fanin depth-4 circuits
with Pranjal Dutta and Prateek Dwivedi
36th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC), vol.200, 11:1--11:27, 2021. [pdf]   [full-version]


A Largish Sum-of-Squares Implies Circuit Hardness and Derandomization
with Pranjal Dutta and Thomas Thierauf
12th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), vol.185, 23:1--23:20, 2021. [pdf[full]  [slides-IITM[talk-ITCS]
(Journal of Comput.Complex., 33:3, 2024 [pdf])
(This supersedes earlier results archived in [slides-TIFR[pdf-4th]  [pdf-25th]  [webinar])


Computing Igusa's local zeta function of univariates in deterministic polynomial-time
with Ashish Dwivedi
14th Biannual Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium, ANTS-XIV, vol.4, 197--214, 2020. [pdf] [webinar]


Blackbox identity testing for sum of special ROABPs and its border class

with Pranav Bisht
Journal of Comput.Complex., vol.30:8, 1-48, 2021. [pdf]    [webinar]


Special-case algorithms for blackbox radical membership, Nullstellensatz and transcendence degree
with Abhibhav Garg
45th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC), 186--193, 2020. [pdf]    [webinar]


Counting basic-irreducible factors mod pk
in deterministic poly-time and p-adic applications
with Ashish Dwivedi and Rajat Mittal
34th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC), 15:1--15:29, 2019. [pdf]     [slides]


Efficiently factoring polynomials modulo p4

with Ashish Dwivedi and Rajat Mittal
44th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC), 139--146, 2019. [pdf]
(Journal version in Journal of Symbolic Computation, 104:805--823, 2021. [pdf])


Towards blackbox identity testing of log-variate circuits

with Michael A.Forbes and Sumanta Ghosh
45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP), 54:1--54:16, 2018. [full]    [conf]


Algebraic dependencies and PSPACE algorithms in approximative complexity over any field

with Zeyu Guo and Amit Sinhababu
33rd Computational Complexity Conference (CCC), 10:1--10:21, 2018. [pdf]
(Invited in the special issue of the journal ToC, vol.15(16), 1--30, 2019. [pdf])


Discovering the roots: Uniform closure results for algebraic classes under factoring
with Pranjal Dutta and Amit Sinhababu
50th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 1152--1165, 2018. [full]     [conf]
(Accepted in J.ACM, 69(3): 18:1-18:39 (2022) [pdf])


Bootstrapping variables in algebraic circuits
with Manindra Agrawal and Sumanta Ghosh
50th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 1166--1179, 2018. [full]    [conf]
(Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, PNAS, 2019. [pdf])
 


Irreducibility and deterministic r-th root finding over finite fields

with Vishwas Bhargava, Gábor Ivanyos and Rajat Mittal
42nd International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC), 37--44, 2017. [pdf]


Polynomial Interpolation and Identity Testing from High Powers Over Finite Fields
with Gábor Ivanyos, Marek Karpinski, Miklos Santha and Igor E. Shparlinski
Algorithmica, 80(2), 560-575, 2018. [pdf]


Algebraic independence over positive characteristic: New criterion and applications to locally low algebraic rank circuits
with Anurag Pandey and Amit Sinhababu
41st MFCS, 58, 74:1-74:15, 2016. [pdf]
(Journal version in Computational Complexity, 27(4), 617--670, 2018. [pdf])


Identity testing for constant-width, and commutative, read-once oblivious ABPs

with Rohit Gurjar and Arpita Korwar
31st Computational Complexity Conference, 29:1-29:16, 2016. [pdf]
(Invited in the special issue of the journal ToC, Volume 13 (999), 2017, pp. 1–21. [pdf])

Integer factoring using small algebraic dependencies
with Manindra Agrawal and Shubham Sahai Srivastava
41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), 58, 6:1-6:14, 2016. [pdf]

Deterministic Identity Testing for Sum of ROABPs
with Rohit Gurjar, Arpita Korwar and Thomas Thierauf
30th Computational Complexity Conference, 33, 323-346, 2015. [pdf]
(Journal of Computational Complexity, 26(4), 835-880, 2017. [pdf])

Hitting-sets for ROABP and sum of set-multilinear circuits
with Manindra Agrawal, Rohit Gurjar and Arpita Korwar
SICOMP, vol.44, no.3, 669-697, 2015. [pdf]
(Subsumes an older preprint, 2013 [pdf])


Quasi-polynomial Hitting-set for Set-depth-D Formulas
with Manindra Agrawal and Chandan Saha
45th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), pp.321-330, 2013. [eccc]  [conf]


Deterministic Polynomial Factoring and Association Schemes

with Manuel Arora, Gábor Ivanyos and Marek Karpinski.
LMS J. Comput. Math., vol.17, no.1, 123-140, 2014. [pdf]


Algebraic Independence in Positive Characteristic -- A p-adic Calculus
with Johannes Mittmann and Peter Scheiblechner.
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., vol.366, no.7, 3425-3450, 2014. [pdf]


Jacobian hits circuits: Hitting-sets, lower bounds for depth-D occur-k formulas & depth-3 transcendence degree-k circuits

with Manindra Agrawal, Chandan Saha and Ramprasad Saptharishi.
44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), pp.599-614, 2012. [pdf]
(Invited in the special issue of the journal SICOMP, vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 1533–1562, 2016. [pdf])


Algebraic Independence and Blackbox Identity Testing
with Malte Beecken and Johannes Mittmann.
38th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), pp.137-148, 2011. [pdf]
[Awarded the Best Paper in Track A]
(Invited and accepted in the special issue of the journal Information & Computation, vol.222, 2-19, 2013. [pdf])


A Case of Depth-3 Identity Testing, Sparse Factorization and Duality
with Chandan Saha and Ramprasad Saptharishi.
Computational Complexity, vol.22, no.1, 39-69, 2013. [pdf]


Blackbox Identity Testing for Bounded Top Fanin Depth-3 Circuits: the field doesn't matter 
with C. Seshadhri.
43rd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), pp.431-440, 2011. [pdf]
(Invited and accepted in the special issue of the journal SIAM J. Comput., vol.41, no.5, 1285-1298, 2012. [pdf])


From Sylvester-Gallai Configurations to Rank Bounds: Improved Black-box Identity Test for Depth-3 Circuits

with C. Seshadhri.
51st Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), pp.21-29, 2010. [conf]

(Journal of the ACM, vol.60, no.5, article 33, 2013. [full])



Deterministic Polynomial Time Algorithms for Matrix Completion Problems.
with Gábor Ivanyos and Marek Karpinski.
SIAM J. Comp., vol.39, no.8, 3736-3751, 2010. [pdf]


The Power of Depth 2 Circuits over Algebras.
with Chandan Saha and Ramprasad Saptharishi.
29th Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS), pp.371-382, 2009. [pdf]


An Almost Optimal Rank Bound for Depth-3 Identities.
with C. Seshadhri.
24th IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC), pp.137-148, 2009. [pdf]
(Journal version in SICOMP, vol.40, no.1, 200-224, 2011. [pdf])


Trading GRH for algebra: algorithms for factoring polynomials and related structures.

with Gábor Ivanyos, Marek Karpinski and Lajos Rónyai.
Math. Comp., vol.81, 493-531, 2012. [pdf]


Schemes for Deterministic Polynomial Factoring.
with Gábor Ivanyos and Marek Karpinski.
34th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC), pp.191-198, 2009. [pdf]


Diagonal Circuit Identity Testing and Lower Bounds.

35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), LNCS 5125, pp.60-71, 2008. [pdf]


Parameters of Integral Circulant Graphs and Periodic Quantum Dynamics.
with Simone Severini and Igor E. Shparlinski.
International Journal of Quantum Information, volume 5(3), 417-430, 2007. [pdf]


Polynomial Identity Testing for Depth 3 Circuits.
with Neeraj Kayal.
21st IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC), pp.9-17, 2006. [pdf]
[Awarded the Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards]
(Invited in the special issue of the journal Computational Complexity, volume 16(2), 115-138, 2007. [pdf])


Equivalence of F-algebras and cubic forms
.
with Manindra Agrawal.
23rd STACS, Springer LNCS 3884, pp.115-126, 2006. [pdf]
(full version [pdf])


Automorphisms of Finite Rings and Applications to Complexity of Problems.
with Manindra Agrawal.
22nd Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), Springer LNCS 3404, pp.1-17, 2005. [pdf]


On the Ring Isomorphism & Automorphism Problems.
with Neeraj Kayal.
20th IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC), pp.2-12, 2005. [pdf]
(Invited in the special issue of the journal Computational Complexity, volume 15(4), 342-390, 2006. [pdf])


PRIMES is in P. [original version]
with Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal.
Annals of Mathematics, volume 160(2), 781-793, 2004. [pdf]
[Awarded Gödel Prize 2006 and Fulkerson Prize 2006]


Manuscripts

PhD Thesis. [pdf]

On the centers of higher degree forms. [pdf]