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Codes and modular curves

Number Theory 2023-01-10 v1 Information Theory Algebraic Geometry math.IT

Abstract

These lecture notes have been written for a course at the Algebraic Coding Theory (ACT) summer school 2022 that took place in the university of Zurich. The objective of the course propose an in-depth presentation of the proof of one of the most striking results of coding theory: Tsfasman Vl\u{a}du\c{t} Zink Theorem, which asserts that for some prime power qq, there exist sequences of codes over Fq\mathbb{F}_q whose asymptotic parameters beat random codes.

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@article{arxiv.2301.03569,
  title  = {Codes and modular curves},
  author = {Alain Couvreur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03569},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Lecture notes for a course given at the Algebraic Coding Theory (ACT) summer school 2022

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