Definition 2 (q-ary Kernel lattice). Let be any
(full rank) matrix with .
We define the q-ary Kernel lattice of as
If we write , where
,
, then assuming that is invertible, has a basis
If is not invertible, we can
simply re-order the columns to make start with a invertible matrix. The lattice
has dimension and volume . Finding a short vector in this
lattice, i.e., a short element in the kernel of , is usually referred to as the short
integer solution (SIS) problem.
Let denotes the
smallest radius of a closed ball containing at least linearly independent vectors in the
lattice . If for some
, then the lattice
contains a -unique SVP (uSVP)
solution.