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On the list recoverability of randomly punctured codes

Combinatorics 2020-07-07 v3 Computational Complexity Discrete Mathematics Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We show that a random puncturing of a code with good distance is list recoverable beyond the Johnson bound. In particular, this implies that there are Reed-Solomon codes that are list recoverable beyond the Johnson bound. It was previously known that there are Reed-Solomon codes that do not have this property. As an immediate corollary to our main theorem, we obtain better degree bounds on unbalanced expanders that come from Reed-Solomon codes.

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@article{arxiv.2005.02478,
  title  = {On the list recoverability of randomly punctured codes},
  author = {Ben Lund and Aditya Potukuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.02478},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages, several changes in introductory sections

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