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Rank Two Bundles on Algebraic Curves and Decoding of Goppa Codes

alg-geom 2008-02-03 v3 Information Theory Algebraic Geometry math.IT

Abstract

We study a connection between two topics: Decoding of Goppa codes arising from an algebraic curve, and rank two extensions of certain line bundles on the curve.

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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9608018,
  title  = {Rank Two Bundles on Algebraic Curves and Decoding of Goppa Codes},
  author = {Trygve Johnsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9608018},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

An error in (what is now called) Theorem 3.4 has been corrected