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Table 2 Overview of parameters and notations

From: Shorter ZK-SNARKs from square span programs over ideal lattices

Notations

Explanation

\(R=\mathbb{Z}[\zeta _{2n}]\)

n-th cyclotomic ring

\(\mathcal{R}=\mathbb{Z}[\zeta _{16n}]\)

8n-th cyclotomic ring

\({\mathfrak{p}}\)

prime idea of ring R or \(\mathcal{R}\)

\(n\in \mathbb{Z}\)

dimension of ring R

\(k\in \mathbb{Z}\)

rank of encoding scheme

\(k'\in \mathbb{Z}\)

rank of the key-switching key

\(\sigma\)

standard deviation

\(\Phi _{\sigma }\)

discrete Gaussian distribution \(\sigma\) over R

\(\Phi '_{\sigma }\)

discrete Gaussian distribution \(\sigma\) over \(\mathcal{R}\)

Q

modulus

\(Q'\)

switched modulus

p

plaintext modulus

\(\tau\)

Galois automorphism