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Griesmer Bound and Constructions of Linear Codes in $b$-Symbol Metric

Information Theory 2024-01-11 v1 math.IT

Abstract

The bb-symbol metric is a generalization of the Hamming metric. Linear codes, in the bb-symbol metric, have been used in the read channel whose outputs consist of bb consecutive symbols. The Griesmer bound outperforms the Singleton bound for Fq\mathbb{F}_q-linear codes in the Hamming metric, when qq is fixed and the length is large enough. This scenario is also applicable in the bb-symbol metric. Shi, Zhu, and Helleseth recently made a conjecture on cyclic codes in the bb-symbol metric. In this paper, we present the bb-symbol Griesmer bound for linear codes by concatenating linear codes and simplex codes. Based on cyclic codes and extended cyclic codes, we propose two families of distance-optimal linear codes with respect to the bb-symbol Griesmer bound.

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@article{arxiv.2401.04941,
  title  = {Griesmer Bound and Constructions of Linear Codes in $b$-Symbol Metric},
  author = {Gaojun Luo and Martianus Frederic Ezerman and Cem Güneri and San Ling and Ferruh Özbudak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04941},
  year   = {2024}
}