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We construct linear codes over the finite field Fq from arbitrary simplicial complexes, establishing a connection between topological properties and fundamental coding parameters. First, we study the behaviour of the weights of codewords…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Antonio Jesús Lorite López , Daniel Camazón Portela , Juan Antonio López Ramos

Polar codes are constructed for arbitrary channels by imposing an arbitrary quasigroup structure on the input alphabet. Just as with "usual" polar codes, the block error probability under successive cancellation decoding is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Rajai Nasser , Emre Telatar

Linear codes over finite extension fields have widespread applications in theory and practice. In some scenarios, the decoder has a sequential access to the codeword symbols, giving rise to a hierarchical erasure structure. In this paper we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Netanel Raviv , Moshe Schwartz , Rami Cohen , Yuval Cassuto

Maximum-likelihood decoding is one of the central algorithmic problems in coding theory. It has been known for over 25 years that maximum-likelihood decoding of general linear codes is NP-hard. Nevertheless, it was so far unknown whether…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Venkatesan Guruswami , Alexander Vardy

Parallel tensor network contraction algorithms have emerged as the pivotal benchmarks for assessing the classical limits of computation, exemplified by Google's demonstration of quantum supremacy through random circuit sampling. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jin Lee , Sofia Gonzalez-Garcia , Zheng Zhang , Haewon Jeong

Sum-rank metric codes, as a generalization of Hamming codes and rank metric codes, have important applications in fields such as multi-shot linear network coding, space-time coding and distributed storage systems. The purpose of this study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xuemei Liu , Jiarong Zhang , Gang Wang

Multishot network coding is considered in a worst-case adversarial setting in which an omniscient adversary with unbounded computational resources may inject erroneous packets in up to $t$ links, erase up to $\rho$ packets, and wire-tap up…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , Frank R. Kschischang

A scheme for concatenating the recently invented polar codes with interleaved block codes is considered. By concatenating binary polar codes with interleaved Reed-Solomon codes, we prove that the proposed concatenation scheme captures the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

Finding optimal correction of errors in generic stabilizer codes is a computationally hard problem, even for simple noise models. While this task can be simplified for codes with some structure, such as topological stabilizer codes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Nishad Maskara , Aleksander Kubica , Tomas Jochym-O'Connor

A list decoding algorithm for matrix-product codes is provided when $C_1,..., C_s$ are nested linear codes and $A$ is a non-singular by columns matrix. We estimate the probability of getting more than one codeword as output when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Fernando Hernando , Tom Høholdt , Diego Ruano

The unit-derived method in coding theory is shown to be a unique optimal scheme for constructing and analysing codes. In many cases efficient and practical decoding methods are produced. Codes with efficient decoding algorithms at maximal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Ted Hurley , Donny Hurley

We define code maps between Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes using maps between chain complexes, and describe code surgery between such codes using a specific colimit in the category of chain complexes. As well as describing a surgery…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Alexander Cowtan , Simon Burton

We consider the problem of communication efficient secure distributed matrix multiplication. The previous literature has focused on reducing the number of servers as a proxy for minimizing communication costs. The intuition being, that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Roberto Assis Machado , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein

We show that many known schemes of the public key exchange protocols in the algebraic cryptography, that use two-sided multiplications, are the specific cases of the general scheme of such type. In most cases, such schemes are built on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-20 V. A. Roman'kov

Unit derived schemes applied to Hadamard matrices are used to construct and analyse linear block and convolutional codes. Codes are constructed to prescribed types, lengths and rates and multiple series of self-dual, dual-containing, linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ted Hurley

Quantum error correction is a key ingredient for large scale quantum computation, protecting logical information from physical noise by encoding it into many physical qubits. Topological stabilizer codes are particularly appealing due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Hoang Viet Nguyen , Manh Hung Nguyen , Hoang Ta , Van Khu Vu , Yeow Meng Chee

We introduce a framework for constructing quantum codes defined on spheres by recasting such codes as quantum analogues of the classical spherical codes. We apply this framework to bosonic coding, obtaining multimode extensions of the cat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Shubham P. Jain , Joseph T. Iosue , Alexander Barg , Victor V. Albert

We consider explicit constructions of multi-level lattice codes that universally approach the capacity of the compound block-fading channel. Specifically, building on algebraic partitions of lattices, we show how to construct codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Antonio Campello , Ling Liu , Cong Ling

Two classes of turbo codes over high-order finite fields are introduced. The codes are derived from a particular protograph sub-ensemble of the (dv=2,dc=3) low-density parity-check code ensemble. A first construction is derived as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gianluigi Liva , Enrico Paolini , Sandro Scalise , Marco Chiani

One of the most important and challenging problems in coding theory is to construct codes with best possible parameters and properties. The class of quasi-cyclic (QC) codes is known to be fertile to produce such codes. Focusing on QC codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Dev Akre , Nuh Aydin , Matthew J. Harrington , Saurav R. Pandey