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Superregular matrices are a class of lower triangular Toeplitz matrices that arise in the context of constructing convolutional codes having a maximum distance profile. These matrices are characterized by the property that no submatrix has…
A trivially zero minor of a matrix is a minor having all its terms in the Leibniz formula equal to zero. A matrix is superregular if all of its minors that are not trivially zero are nonzero. In the area of Coding Theory, superregular…
Superregular matrices have the property that all of their submatrices, which can be full rank are so. Lower triangular superregular matrices are useful for e.g., maximum distance separable convolutional codes as well as for (sequential)…
Superregular matrices, i.e., matrices where all square submatrices are non-singular, have a wide range of applications in communications. A superregular block matrix is a broader concept where all full block submatrices, with the…
The main results of this paper are twofold: the first one is a matrix theoretical result. We say that a matriz is superregular if all of its minors that are not trivially zero are nonzero. Given a a times b, a larger than or equal to b,…
Maximum distance separable convolutional codes are the codes that present best performance in error correction among all convolutional codes with certain rate and degree. In this paper, we show that taking the constant matrix coefficients…
In this paper, we develop the theory of convolutional codes over finite commutative chain rings. In particular, we focus on maximum distance profile (MDP) convolutional codes and we provide a characterization of these codes, generalizing…
Maximum-distance separable (MDS) convolutional codes are characterized by the property that their free distance reaches the generalized Singleton bound. In this paper, new criteria to construct MDS convolutional codes are presented.…
Maximum Distance Profile (MDP) convolutional codes are an important class of channel codes due to their maximal delay-constrained error correction capabilities. The design of MDP codes has attracted significant attention from the research…
The matrix completion problem provides a unifying lens through which many fundamental problems in coding theory can be viewed. In this paper, we investigate Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs) with Maximal Recoverability (MR) and Maximum…
The problem of diagonalizing a class of complicated matrices, to be called ultrametric matrices, is investigated. These matrices appear at various stages in the description of disordered systems with many equilibrium phases by the technique…
This paper investigates the theory of sum-rank metric codes for which the individual matrix blocks may have different sizes. Various bounds on the cardinality of a code are derived, along with their asymptotic extensions. The duality theory…
The maximal commutative subalgebras containing only Toeplitz matrices have been identified as generalized circulants. A similar simple description cannot be obtained for block Toeplitz matrices. We introduce and investigate certain families…
We show that the maximum rank of block lower triangular Toeplitz block matrices equals their term rank if the blocks fulfill a structural condition, i.e., only the locations but not the values of their nonzeros are fixed.
The maximal algebras of scalar Toeplitz matrices are known to be formed by generalized circulants. The identification of algebras consisting of block Toeplitz matrices is a harder problem, that has received little attention up to now. We…
In this paper we classify, up to isomorphism, the superinvolutions on algebras of upper block-triangular matrices over an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from $2$.
We study two specific symmetric random block Toeplitz (of dimension $k \times k$) matrices: where the blocks (of size $n \times n$) are (i) matrices with i.i.d. entries, and (ii) asymmetric Toeplitz matrices. Under suitable assumptions on…
A class of one-dimensional convolutional codes will be presented. They are all MDS codes, i. e., have the largest distance among all one-dimensional codes of the same length n and overall constraint length delta. Furthermore, their extended…
For a given nonnegative integer alpha, a matrix A_{n} of size n is called alpha-Toeplitz if its entries obey the rule A_{n}=[a_{r-alpha*s}]_{r,s=0}^{n-1}. Analogously, a matrix A_{n} again of size n is called alpha-circulant if A_{n}=…
In this paper, we present four constructions of {general} self-orthogonal matrix-product codes associated with Toeplitz matrices. The first one relies on the {dual} of a known {general} dual-containing matrix-product code; the second one is…