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Deep holes and MDS extensions of Reed-Solomon codes

Information Theory 2016-12-19 v1 Combinatorics math.IT

Abstract

We study the problem of classifying deep holes of Reed-Solomon codes. We show that this problem is equivalent to the problem of classifying MDS extensions of Reed-Solomon codes by one digit. This equivalence allows us to improve recent results on the former problem. In particular, we classify deep holes of Reed-Solomon codes of dimension greater than half the alphabet size. We also give a complete classification of deep holes of Reed Solomon codes with redundancy three in all dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1612.05447,
  title  = {Deep holes and MDS extensions of Reed-Solomon codes},
  author = {Krishna Kaipa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05447},
  year   = {2016}
}