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The cyclotomic fast Fourier transform is a type of fast Fourier transform algorithm over finite fields. This algorithm first decomposes a DFT into several circular convolutions, and then derives the DFT results from the circular convolution results. When applied to a DFT over ${\displaystyle GF(2^{m})}$, this algorithm has a very low multiplicative complexity. In practice, since there usually exist efficient algorithms for circular convolutions with specific lengths, this algorithm is very efficient.

Background

The discrete Fourier transform over finite fields finds widespread application in the decoding of error-correcting codes such as BCH codes and Reed–Solomon codes. Generalized from the complex field, a discrete Fourier transform of a sequence ${\displaystyle \{f_{i}\}_{0}^{N-1}}$ over a finite field GF(p) is defined as

${\displaystyle F_{j}=\sum _{i=0}^{N-1}f_{i}\alpha ^{ij},0\leq j\leq N-1,}$

where ${\displaystyle \alpha }$ is the N-th primitive root of 1 in GF(p). If we define the polynomial representation of ${\displaystyle \{f_{i}\}_{0}^{N-1}}$ as

${\displaystyle f(x)=f_{0}+f_{1}x+f_{2}x^{2}+\cdots +f_{N-1}x^{N-1}=\sum _{0}^{N-1}f_{i}x^{i},}$

it is easy to see that ${\displaystyle F_{j}}$ is simply ${\displaystyle f(\alpha ^{j})}$. That is, the discrete Fourier transform of a sequence converts it to a polynomial evaluation problem.

Written in matrix format,

${\displaystyle \mathbf {F} =\left=\left\left={\mathcal {F}}\mathbf {f} .}$

Direct evaluation of DFT has an ${\displaystyle O(N^{2})}$ complexity. Fast Fourier transforms are just efficient algorithms evaluating the above matrix-vector product.

Algorithm

First, we define a linearized polynomial over GF(p) as

${\displaystyle L(x)=\sum _{i}l_{i}x^{p^{i}},l_{i}\in \mathrm {GF} (p^{m}).}$

${\displaystyle L(x)}$ is called linearized because ${\displaystyle L(x_{1}+x_{2})=L(x_{1})+L(x_{2})}$, which comes from the fact that for elements ${\displaystyle x_{1},x_{2}\in \mathrm {GF} (p^{m}),}$${\displaystyle (x_{1}+x_{2})^{p}=x_{1}^{p}+x_{2}^{p}.}$

Notice that ${\displaystyle p}$ is invertible modulo ${\displaystyle N}$ because ${\displaystyle N}$ must divide the order ${\displaystyle p^{m}-1}$ of the multiplicative group of the field ${\displaystyle \mathrm {GF} (p^{m})}$. So, the elements ${\displaystyle \{0,1,2,\ldots ,N-1\}}$ can be partitioned into ${\displaystyle l+1}$ cyclotomic cosets modulo ${\displaystyle N}$:

${\displaystyle \{0\},}$

${\displaystyle \{k_{1},pk_{1},p^{2}k_{1},\ldots ,p^{m_{1}-1}k_{1}\},}$

${\displaystyle \ldots ,}$

${\displaystyle \{k_{l},pk_{l},p^{2}k_{l},\ldots ,p^{m_{l}-1}k_{l}\},}$

where ${\displaystyle k_{i}=p^{m_{i}}k_{i}{\pmod {N}}}$. Therefore, the input to the Fourier transform can be rewritten as

${\displaystyle f(x)=\sum _{i=0}^{l}L_{i}(x^{k_{i}}),\quad L_{i}(y)=\sum _{t=0}^{m_{i}-1}y^{p^{t}}f_{p^{t}k_{i}{\bmod {N}}}.}$

In this way, the polynomial representation is decomposed into a sum of linear polynomials, and hence ${\displaystyle F_{j}}$ is given by

${\displaystyle F_{j}=f(\alpha ^{j})=\sum _{i=0}^{l}L_{i}(\alpha ^{jk_{i}})}$.

Expanding ${\displaystyle \alpha ^{jk_{i}}\in \mathrm {GF} (p^{m_{i}})}$ with the proper basis ${\displaystyle \{\beta _{i,0},\beta _{i,1},\ldots ,\beta _{i,m_{i}-1}\}}$, we have ${\displaystyle \alpha ^{jk_{i}}=\sum _{s=0}^{m_{i}-1}a_{ijs}\beta _{i,s}}$ where ${\displaystyle a_{ijs}\in \mathrm {GF} (p)}$, and by the property of the linearized polynomial ${\displaystyle L_{i}(x)}$, we have

${\displaystyle F_{j}=\sum _{i=0}^{l}\sum _{s=0}^{m_{i}-1}a_{ijs}\left(\sum _{t=0}^{m_{i}-1}\beta _{i,s}^{p^{t}}f_{p^{t}k_{i}{\bmod {N}}}\right)}$

This equation can be rewritten in matrix form as ${\displaystyle \mathbf {F} =\mathbf {AL\Pi f} }$, where ${\displaystyle \mathbf {A} }$ is an ${\displaystyle N\times N}$ matrix over GF(p) that contains the elements ${\displaystyle a_{ijs}}$, ${\displaystyle \mathbf {L} }$ is a block diagonal matrix, and ${\displaystyle \mathbf {\Pi } }$ is a permutation matrix regrouping the elements in ${\displaystyle \mathbf {f} }$ according to the cyclotomic coset index.

Note that if the normal basis ${\displaystyle \{\gamma _{i}^{p^{0}},\gamma _{i}^{p^{1}},\cdots ,\gamma _{i}^{p^{m_{i}-1}}\}}$ is used to expand the field elements of ${\displaystyle \mathrm {GF} (p^{m_{i}})}$, the i-th block of ${\displaystyle \mathbf {L} }$ is given by:

${\displaystyle \mathbf {L} _{i}={\begin{bmatrix}\gamma _{i}^{p^{0}}&\gamma _{i}^{p^{1}}&\cdots &\gamma _{i}^{p^{m_{i}-1}}\\\gamma _{i}^{p^{1}}&\gamma _{i}^{p^{2}}&\cdots &\gamma _{i}^{p^{0}}\\\vdots &\vdots &\ddots &\vdots \\\gamma _{i}^{p^{m_{i}-1}}&\gamma _{i}^{p^{0}}&\cdots &\gamma _{i}^{p^{m_{i}-2}}\\\end{bmatrix}}}$

which is a circulant matrix. It is well known that a circulant matrix-vector product can be efficiently computed by convolutions. Hence we successfully reduce the discrete Fourier transform into short convolutions.

Complexity

When applied to a characteristic-2 field GF(2), the matrix ${\displaystyle \mathbf {A} }$ is just a binary matrix. Only addition is used when calculating the matrix-vector product of ${\displaystyle \mathrm {A} }$ and ${\displaystyle \mathrm {L\Pi f} }$. It has been shown that the multiplicative complexity of the cyclotomic algorithm is given by ${\displaystyle O(n(\log _{2}n)^{\log _{2}{\frac {3}{2}}})}$, and the additive complexity is given by ${\displaystyle O(n^{2}/(\log _{2}n)^{\log _{2}{\frac {8}{3}}})}$.

References

1. S.V. Fedorenko and P.V. Trifonov, Fedorenko, S. V.; Trifonov, P. V.. (2003). "On Computing the Fast Fourier Transform over Finite Fields" (PDF). Proceedings of International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory: 108–111.
2. ^ Wu, Xuebin; Wang, Ying; Yan, Zhiyuan (2012). "On Algorithms and Complexities of Cyclotomic Fast Fourier Transforms Over Arbitrary Finite Fields". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 60 (3): 1149–1158. Bibcode:2012ITSP...60.1149W. doi:10.1109/tsp.2011.2178844.

• Discrete transforms
• FFT algorithms