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On quadratic residue codes and hyperelliptic curves

Combinatorics 2008-02-21 v2 Information Theory Algebraic Geometry math.IT Number Theory

Abstract

A long standing problem has been to develop "good" binary linear codes to be used for error-correction. This paper investigates in some detail an attack on this problem using a connection between quadratic residue codes and hyperelliptic curves. One question which coding theory is used to attack is: Does there exist a c<2 such that, for all sufficiently large pp and all subsets S of GF(p), we have |X_S(GF(p))| < cp?

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@article{arxiv.math/0609562,
  title  = {On quadratic residue codes and hyperelliptic curves},
  author = {David Joyner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609562},
  year   = {2008}
}

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18 pages, no figures