On the RLWE/PLWE equivalence for cyclotomic number fields

Abstract

We study the equivalence between the Ring Learning With Errors and Polynomial Learning With Errors problems for cyclotomic number fields,namely: we prove that both problems are equivalent via a polynomial noise increase as long as the number of distinct primes dividing the conductor is kept constant. We refine our bound in the case where the conductor is divisible by at most three primes and we give an asymptotic subexponential formula for the condition number of the attached Vandermonde matrix valid for arbitrary degree.