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Small Strong Blocking Sets by Concatenation

Combinatorics 2023-01-24 v2 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

Strong blocking sets and their counterparts, minimal codes, attracted lots of attention in the last years. Combining the concatenating construction of codes with a geometric insight into the minimality condition, we explicitly provide infinite families of small strong blocking sets, whose size is linear in the dimension of the ambient projective spaces. As a byproduct, small saturating sets are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.2109.00584,
  title  = {Small Strong Blocking Sets by Concatenation},
  author = {Daniele Bartoli and Martino Borello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00584},
  year   = {2023}
}

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16 pages

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