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This paper presents encoding and decoding algorithms for several families of optimal rank metric codes whose codes are in restricted forms of symmetric, alternating and Hermitian matrices. First, we show the evaluation encoding is the right…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wrya K. Kadir , Chunlei Li , Ferdinando Zullo

Over fields of characteristic unequal to $2$, we can identify symmetric matrices with homogeneous polynomials of degree $2$. This allows us to view symmetric rank-metric codes as living inside the space of such polynomials. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Arthur Bik , Alessandro Neri

Rough sets are efficient for data pre-processing in data mining. As a generalization of the linear independence in vector spaces, matroids provide well-established platforms for greedy algorithms. In this paper, we apply rough sets to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Jingqian Wang , William Zhu

This paper introduces new constructions of sum-rank metric codes derived from algebraic function fields, as existing results on such codes remain limited. A major challenge lies in the determination of their parameters. We address this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhu Yunlong , Zhao Chang-An

A matroid is a combinatorial structure that captures and generalizes the algebraic concept of linear independence under a broader and more abstract framework. Matroids are closely related with many other topics in discrete mathematics, such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Gianira N. Alfarano , Karan Khathuria , Simran Tinani

Using the combinatorial formula for the transformed Macdonald polynomials of Haglund, Haiman, and Loehr, we investigate the combinatorics of the symmetry relation $\widetilde{H}_\mu(\mathbf{x};q,t) =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Maria Monks Gillespie

A systematic way of constructing Grassmannian codes endowed with the subspace distance as lifts of matrix codes over the prime field $GF(p)$ is introduced. The matrix codes are $GF(p)$-subspaces of the ring $M_2(GF(p))$ of $2 \times 2$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Bryan Hernandez , Virgilio Sison

A class of scattered linearized polynomials covering infinitely many field extensions is exhibited. More precisely, the $q$-polynomial over $\mathbb F_{q^6}$, $q \equiv 1\pmod 4$ described in arXiv:1906.05611, arXiv:1910.02278 is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Giovanni Longobardi , Corrado Zanella

Some combinatorial designs, such as Hadamard matrices, have been extensively researched and are familiar to readers across the spectrum of Science and Engineering. They arise in diverse fields such as cryptography, communication theory, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Ronan Egan

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity. The paper studies the problem of self-orthogonality and self-duality matrix-product codes (MPCs) over $R$. Some methods as well as special matrices are introduced for the construction of such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Abdulaziz Deajim , Mohamed Bouye

The Gaussian polynomial in variable $q$ is defined as the $q$-analog of the binomial coefficient. In addition to remarkable implications of these polynomials to abstract algebra, matrix theory and quantum computing, there is also a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Ivica Martinjak , Ivana Zubac

In this note, we present some basic properties of $q$-Fibonacci numbers and their relationship to the $q$-golden ratio and Catalan numbers. We then use this relationship to give a short proof of a combinatorial identity.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Kevin Carde

We study the generalized rank weight distribution of a linear code. First, we provide a MacWilliams-type identity which relates the distributions of a code and its dual. Then, we give a formula for the enumerator polynomial. Finally, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Julien Molina

We construct a collection of matrices defined by quadratic residue symbols, termed "quadratic residue matrices", associated to the splitting behavior of prime ideals in a composite of quadratic extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$, and prove a simple…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-22 David S. Dummit , Evan P. Dummit , Hershy Kisilevsky

Let $q$ be a prime power. This paper provides a new class of linear codes that arises from the action of the alternating group on $\mathbb F_q[x_1,\dots,x_m]$ combined with the ideas in (M. Datta and T. Johnsen, 2022). Compared with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Giacomo Micheli , Vincenzo Pallozzi Lavorante , Phillip Waitkevich

In the recent years, the notion of rank metric in the context of coding theory has known many interesting developments in terms of applications such as space time coding, network coding or public key cryptography. These applications raised…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Alain Couvreur , Thomas Debris-Alazard , Philippe Gaborit

We extend Ravagnani's MacWilliams duality theory to the settings of rank metric codes over finite chain rings, relating the sequences of $q$-binomial moments of a rank metric code over this class of rings with those of its dual.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Iván Blanco-Chacón , Alberto F. Boix , Marcus Greferath , Erik Hieta-aho

A subspace of matrices over $\mathbb{F}_{q^e}^{m\times n}$ can be naturally embedded as a subspace of matrices in $\mathbb{F}_q^{em\times en}$ with the property that the rank of any of its matrix is a multiple of $e$. It is quite natural to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Olga Polverino , Paolo Santonastaso , John Sheekey , Ferdinando Zullo

First some old as well as new results about P.I. algebras, Ore extensions, and degrees are presented. Then quantized $n\times r$ matrices as well as quantized factor algebras of $M_q(n)$ are analyzed. The latter are the quantized function…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hans Plesner Jakobsen , Søren Jøndrup

Sum-rank-metric codes have wide applications in universal error correction, multishot network coding, space-time coding and the construction of partial-MDS codes for repair in distributed storage. Fundamental properties of sum-rank-metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hao Chen