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Approximate MDS Property of Linear Codes

Information Theory 2021-08-18 v1 Combinatorics math.IT

Abstract

In this paper, we study the weight spectrum of linear codes with \emph{super-linear} field size and use the probabilistic method to show that for nearly all such codes, the corresponding weight spectrum is very close to that of a maximum distance separable (MDS) code.

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@article{arxiv.2108.07651,
  title  = {Approximate MDS Property of Linear Codes},
  author = {Ghurumuruhan Ganesan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07651},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EUROCOMB 2021)

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