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The MacWilliams' Extension Theorem is a classical result by Florence Jessie MacWilliams. It shows that every linear isometry between linear block-codes endowed with the Hamming distance can be extended to a linear isometry of the ambient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Elisa Gorla , Flavio Salizzoni

We give a new proof of Delsarte, Goethals and Mac williams theorem on minimal weight codewords of generalized Reed-Muller codes published in 1970. To prove this theorem, we consider intersection of support of minimal weight codewords with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Elodie Leducq

An emerging theory of "linear-algebraic pseudorandomness" aims to understand the linear-algebraic analogs of fundamental Boolean pseudorandom objects where the rank of subspaces plays the role of the size of subsets. In this work, we study…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Michael A. Forbes , Venkatesan Guruswami

We consider the class of linear antipodal two-weight rank metric codes and discuss their properties and characterization in terms of $t$-spreads. It is shown that the dimension of such codes is $2$ and the minimum rank distance is at least…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Rakhi Pratihar , Tovohery Hajatiana Randrianarisoa

We investigate the Whitney numbers of the first kind of rank-metric lattices, which are closely linked to the open problem of enumerating rank-metric codes having prescribed parameters. We apply methods from the theory of hyperovals and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Giuseppe Cotardo , Alberto Ravagnani , Ferdinando Zullo

Let $d, n \in \mathbb{Z}^+$ such that $1\leq d \leq n$. A $d$-code $\mathcal{C} \subset \mathbb{F}_q^{n \times n}$ is a subset of order $n$ square matrices with the property that for all pairs of distinct elements in $\mathcal{C}$, the rank…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-13 G. Longobardi , G. Lunardon , R. Trombetti , Y. Zhou

We establish a connection between Drinfeld modules and rank-metric codes, focusing on the case of semifield codes. Our method constructs rank-metric codes from linear subspaces of endomorphisms of a Drinfeld module acting on torsion…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Giacomo Micheli , Mihran Papikian

The permanent vs. determinant problem is one of the most important problems in theoretical computer science, and is the main target of geometric complexity theory proposed by Mulmuley and Sohoni. The current best lower bound for the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Akihiro Yabe

In the realm of rank-metric codes, Maximum Rank Distance (MRD) codes are optimal algebraic structures attaining the Singleton-like bound. A major open problem in this field is determining whether an MRD code can be extended to a longer one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Daniele Bartoli , Alessandro Giannoni , Giuseppe Marino , Alessandro Neri

While random linear network coding is a powerful tool for disseminating information in communication networks, it is highly susceptible to errors caused by various sources. Due to error propagation, errors greatly deteriorate the throughput…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ning Chen , Zhiyuan Yan , Maximilien Gadouleau , Ying Wang , Bruce W. Suter

Tensor codes are a generalisation of matrix codes. Such codes are defined as subspaces of order-r tensors for which the ambient space is endowed with the tensor-rank as a metric. A class of these codes was introduced by Roth, who also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Eimear Byrne , Alain Couvreur , Lucien François

In this paper we give new constructions of Ferrer diagram rank metric codes, which achieve the largest possible dimension. In particular, we prove several cases of a conjecture by T. Etzion and N. Silberstein. We also establish a sharp…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Elisa Gorla , Alberto Ravagnani

We extend the notion of locality from the Hamming metric to the rank and subspace metrics. Our main contribution is to construct a class of array codes with locality constraints in the rank metric. Our motivation for constructing such codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Swanand Kadhe , Salim El Rouayheb , Iwan Duursma , Alex Sprintson

Wachter-Zeh in [42], and later together with Raviv [31], proved that Gabidulin codes cannot be efficiently list decoded for any radius $\tau$, providing that $\tau$ is large enough. Also, they proved that there are infinitely many choices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Paolo Santonastaso , Ferdinando Zullo

In this work we present a new criterion to check if a given rank-metric code is a maximum rank distance (MRD) code. Moreover, we derive a criterion to check if a given MRD code is a generalized Gabidulin code. We then use these results to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann , Kyle Marshall

In this paper we study properties and invariants of matrix codes endowed with the rank metric, and relate them to the covering radius. We introduce new tools for the analysis of rank-metric codes, such as puncturing and shortening…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Eimear Byrne , Alberto Ravagnani

The min-rank of a digraph was shown by Bar-Yossef et al. (2006) to represent the length of an optimal scalar linear solution of the corresponding instance of the Index Coding with Side Information (ICSI) problem. In this work, the graphs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Son Hoang Dau , Vitaly Skachek , Yeow Meng Chee

We introduce the sum-rank metric analogue of Reed--Muller codes, which we called linearized Reed--Muller codes, using multivariate Ore polynomials. We study the parameters of these codes, compute their dimension and give a lower bound for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Elena Berardini , Xavier Caruso

Optimal rank-metric codes in Ferrers diagrams are considered. Such codes consist of matrices having zeros at certain fixed positions and can be used to construct good codes in the projective space. Four techniques and constructions of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Tuvi Etzion

In this paper, we consider the Reed-Muller (RM) codes. For the first order RM code, we prove that it is unique in the sense that any linear code with the same length, dimension and minimum distance must be the first order RM code; For the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-30 Yanling Chen , Han Vinck