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For the NTT I know the following preconditions, which must be fulfilled for the primitive $N$-th root of unity:

$$ \omega^N \equiv 1 $$ $$ \sum_{i=0}^{N-1} \omega^{ik} \equiv 0 \quad k=1,\ldots,N-1 $$

These are derived from the DFT and adapted to the modular arithmetic of the NNT. So far clear.

But what about this condition:

$$ \underbrace{1+1+\cdots+1}_{N} \not\equiv 0 $$

What if

$$ \underbrace{1+1+\cdots +1}_{N} \equiv 0$$

would apply? What consequence would this have?

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    $\begingroup$ I think your questions are not clear can you elaborate more? $\endgroup$
    – Don Freecs
    Commented Aug 25, 2023 at 20:03
  • $\begingroup$ Are you considering that $\omega^{ik}$ are all one in the sum? If so, that is not true! $\endgroup$
    – kelalaka
    Commented Aug 25, 2023 at 20:37

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In slightly more detail, the condition for fast NTT multiplication in the ring

$$\mathbb{Z}_q[x] / (x^{n}+1)$$

where $n = 2^k$ is that $q\equiv 1\bmod 2n$. Your other question seems to be "what happens when $n\equiv 0\bmod q$?". This will essentially never happen, because in essentially all applications $q = \mathsf{poly}(n)$ (for both correctness and security), so $n\bmod q = n$ (without modular reduction), which cannot be zero for security reasons (it must be $\geq 512$ at a minimum for RLWE. It can be lower for MLWE, but the smallest it can be is 1, e.g. standard LWE, but here we don't do NTT type things anyway).

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[You question is addressed at the end; first some math.]

The parameter $n$ is usually taken to be a power of two because

  • $x^n+1$ is irreducible over $\mathbb{Q}$ for powers of 2 (nice for theoretical lattice problems),
  • the FFT is nicest for powers of 2.

For $x^n+1$ to split completely over the base field $\mathbb{F}_q$, i.e. to get the nice ring homomorphism $$ \mathbb{F}_q[x]/(x^n+1)\cong \prod_{i=0}^{n-1}\mathbb{F}_q[x]/(x-\zeta^{2i+1})\cong \mathbb{F}_q^n, $$ we need a primitive $2n$th root of unity $\zeta\in\mathbb{F}_q$. The multiplicative group $\mathbb{F}_q^{\times}$ has order $q-1$, so we need $2n|q-1$ or $q\equiv 1\bmod 2n$.

In this case the ring isomorphism above is given by evaluation-interpolation/DFT/Chinese remainder theorem (whatever you want to call it), $$ f(x)\mapsto (\ldots, f(\zeta^{2i+1}),\ldots) $$ or as a linear transformation is given by matrix multiplication (on the coefficients of the polynomial $f$ of degree $<$ n) $$ \mathcal{F}=\left(\zeta^{(2i+1)j}\right)_{i,j\geq 0} $$ with inverse $$ \mathcal{F}^{-1}=\frac{1}{n}\left(\zeta^{-(2j+1)i}\right)_{i,j\geq 0}. $$ These linear transformations can be done quickly using the FFT (nice to have $n$ a power of two to break this down nicely, Cooley--Tukey/DIT or Gentleman--Sande/DIF).

The point is to replace polynomial/"negacyclic" multiplication (naive $n^2$ coefficient multiplications) with pointwise multiplication ($n$ coefficient multiplications) at the cost of doing the NTT ($n\log n$-ish).

This is slightly different from the usual DFT/FFT using all roots of unity $x^n-1$, but not by much.

Also, note that you don't need things to split into linear factors to get savings (e.g. $q=3329$, $n=256$ in Kyber).


Addressing your question, with the above (say $q$ prime and $n$ a power of 2), $q$ doesn't divide $n$ so $n\neq0$. Moreover, you wouldn't want this as the linear transformation $\mathcal{F}$ wouldn't be invertible and $x^n+1$ would ramify, e.g. $x^q+1=(x+1)^q$.

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