Covering Codes, List-Decodable Codes and Strong Singleton-Like Bounds in the Sum-Rank Metric
Abstract
Codes in the sum-rank metric have received many attentions in recent years, since they have wide applications in the multishot network coding, the space-time coding and the distributed storage. Fundamental bounds, some explicit or probabilistic constructions of sum-rank codes and their decoding algorithms have been developed in previous papers. In this paper, we construct covering codes in the sum-rank metric from covering codes in the Hamming metric. Then some upper bounds on sizes of covering codes in the sum-rank metric are presented. Block length functions of covering codes in the sum-rank metric are also introduced and studied. As applications of our upper bounds on covering codes in the sum-rank metric and block length functions, several strong Singleton-like bounds on sum-rank codes are proposed and proved. These strong Singleton-like bounds are much stronger than the Singleton-like bound for sum-rank codes, when block lengths are larger and minimum sum-rank distances are small. An upper bound on sizes of list-decodable codes in the sum-rank metric is also given, which leads to an asymptotic bound on list-decodability of sum-rank codes. We also give upper bounds on block lengths of general MSRD codes.
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@article{arxiv.2311.07831,
title = {Covering Codes, List-Decodable Codes and Strong Singleton-Like Bounds in the Sum-Rank Metric},
author = {Hao Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07831},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
25 pages, minor errors corrected