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Asymptotically optimal cyclic subspace codes

Information Theory 2025-07-15 v1 Combinatorics math.IT

Abstract

Subspace codes, and in particular cyclic subspace codes, have gained significant attention in recent years due to their applications in error correction for random network coding. In this paper, we introduce a new technique for constructing cyclic subspace codes with large cardinality and prescribed minimum distance. Using this new method, we provide new constructions of cyclic subspace codes in the Grassmannian Gq(n,k)\mathcal{G}_q(n,k) of all kk-dimensional Fq\mathbb{F}_q-subspaces of an nn-dimensional vector space over Fq\mathbb{F}_q, when knk\mid n and n/kn/k is a composite number, with minimum distance 2k22k-2 and large size. We prove that the resulting codes have sizes larger than those obtained from previously known constructions with the same parameters. Furthermore, we show that our constructions of cyclic subspace codes asymptotically reach the Johnson type bound II for infinite values of n/kn/k.

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@article{arxiv.2507.09290,
  title  = {Asymptotically optimal cyclic subspace codes},
  author = {Chiara Castello and Paolo Santonastaso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.09290},
  year   = {2025}
}
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