Expander graphs based on GRH with an application to elliptic curve cryptography

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Abstract

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We present a construction of expander graphs obtained from Cayley graphs of narrow ray class groups, whose eigenvalue bounds follow from the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis. Our result implies that the Cayley graph of (Z/qZ) with respect to small prime generators is an expander. As another application, we show that the graph of small prime degree isogenies between ordinary elliptic curves achieves nonnegligible eigenvalue separation, and explain the relationship between the expansion properties of these graphs and the security of the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem.

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Keywords

Expander graphs
Elliptic curves
Isogenies
L-functions

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Partially supported by NSERC Discovery Grant #341769-07.

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Partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0601009 and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship.