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Self-orthogonal codes have received great attention due to their important applications in quantum codes, LCD codes and lattices. Recently, several families of self-orthogonal codes containing the all-$1$ vector were constructed by…

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A self-dual binary linear code is called Type I code if it has singly-even codewords, i.e.~it has codewords with weight divisible by $2.$ The purpose of this paper is to investigate interesting properties of Type I codes of different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Carolin Hannusch , Roland S. Major

In this paper we consider two pointsets in $\mathrm{PG}(2,q^n)$ arising from a linear set $L$ of rank $n$ contained in a line of $\mathrm{PG}(2,q^n)$: the first one is a linear blocking set of R\'edei type, the second one extends the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Vito Napolitano , Olga Polverino , Paolo Santonastaso , Ferdinando Zullo

Three classes of binary linear codes with at most four nonzero weights were constructed in this paper, in which two of them are projective three-weight codes. As applications, $s$-sum sets for any odd $ s > 1$ were constructed.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tonghui Zhang , Pinhui Ke , Zuling Chang

Bounds on linear codes play a central role in coding theory, as they capture the fundamental trade-off between error-correction capability (minimum distance) and information rate (dimension relative to length). Classical results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Liren Lin , Guanghui Zhang , Bocong Chen , Hongwei Liu

As a special class of linear codes, minimal linear codes have important applications in secret sharing and secure two-party computation. Constructing minimal linear codes with new and desirable parameters has been an interesting research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ziling Heng , Cunsheng Ding , Zhengchun Zhou

Minimal linear codes have interesting applications in secret sharing schemes and secure two-party computation. This paper uses characteristic functions of some subsets of $\mathbb{F}_q$ to construct minimal linear codes. By properties of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Sihem Mesnager , Yanfeng Qi , Hongming Ru , Chunming Tang

In this paper, we consider the unit graph $G(\mathbb{Z}_{n})$, where $n=p_{1}^{n_{1}} \text{ or } p_{1}^{n_{1}}p_{2}^{n_{2}} \text{ or } p_{1}^{n_{1}}p_{2}^{n_{2}}p_{3}^{n_{3}}$ and $p_{1}, p_{2}, p_{3}$ are distinct primes. For any prime…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-09-01 Rupali S. Jain , B. Surendranath Reddy , Wajid M. Shaikh

We develop an algorithm for computing the weight distribution of a linear $[n,k]$ code over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. We represent the codes by their characteristic vector with respect to a given generator matrix and a special type of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Iliya Bouyukliev , Stefka Bouyuklieva , Tatsuya Maruta , Paskal Piperkov

Because of efficient encoding and decoding algorithms, cyclic codes are an important family of linear block codes, and have applications in communica- tion and storage systems. However, their weight distributions are known only for a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Xiaogang Liu , Yuan Luo

The determination of weight distribution of cyclic codes involves evaluation of Gauss sums and exponential sums. Despite of some cases where a neat expression is available, the computation is generally rather complicated. In this note, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Shuxing Li , Sihuang Hu , Tao Feng , Gennian Ge

A set of linearly constrained permutation matrices are proposed for constructing a class of permutation codes. Making use of linear constraints imposed on the permutation matrices, we can formulate a minimum Euclidian distance decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Tadashi Wadayama , Manabu Hagiwara

Linear codes with large minimal distances are important error correcting codes in information theory.Orthogonal codes have more applications in the other fields of mathematics. In this paper, we study the binary and ternary orthogonal codes…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-17 Xiaoping Xu

The average weight distribution of a regular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensemble over a finite field is thoroughly analyzed. In particular, a precise asymptotic approximation of the average weight distribution is derived for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Shengtian Yang , Thomas Honold , Yan Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Peiliang Qiu

Relative generalized Hamming weights (RGHWs) of a linear code respect to a linear subcode determine the security of the linear ramp secret sharing scheme based on the code. They can be used to express the information leakage of the secret…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Jun Zhang , Keqin Feng

In order to understand the performance of a code under maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding, it is crucial to know the minimal codewords. In the context of linear programming (LP) decoding, it turns out to be necessary to know the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pascal O. Vontobel , Roxana Smarandache , Negar Kiyavash , Jason Teutsch , Dejan Vukobratovic

Due to their fast decoding algorithms, quantum generalizations of low-density parity check, or LDPC, codes have been investigated as a solution to the problem of decoherence in fragile quantum states. However, the additional twisted inner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-04 Jacob Farinholt

We consider a new class of linear codes, called affine Grassmann codes. These can be viewed as a variant of generalized Reed-Muller codes and are closely related to Grassmann codes. We determine the length, dimension, and the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-22 Peter Beelen , Sudhir R. Ghorpade , Tom Hoeholdt

In this paper, for an odd prime power $q$, we extend the construction of Xie et al. \cite{XOYM2023} to propose two classes of linear codes $\mathcal{C}_{Q}$ and $\mathcal{C}_{Q}'$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ with at most four…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xiumei Li , Xiaotong Sun , Min Sha

We present a tree-based construction of LDPC codes that have minimum pseudocodeword weight equal to or almost equal to the minimum distance, and perform well with iterative decoding. The construction involves enumerating a $d$-regular tree…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Christine Kelley , Deepak Sridhara , Joachim Rosenthal