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In this paper, we first study in detail the relationship between minimal linear codes and cutting blocking sets, which were recently introduced by Bonini and Borello, and then completely characterize minimal linear codes as cutting blocking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Chunming Tang , Yan Qiu , Qunying Liao , Zhengchun Zhou

In this paper, we study a class of linear codes defined by characteristic functions of certain subsets of a finite field. We derive a sufficient and necessary condition for such a code to be a minimal linear code by a character-theoretical…

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Recently, minimal linear codes have been extensively studied due to their applications in secret sharing schemes, secure two-party computations, and so on. Constructing minimal linear codes violating the Ashikhmin-Barg condition and then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Haibo Liu , Qunying Liao

A minimal code is a linear code where the only instance that a codeword has its support contained in the support of another codeword is when the codewords are scalar multiples of each other. Ashikhmin and Barg gave a sufficient condition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Julien Sorci

Blocking sets and minimal codes have been studied for many years in projective geometry and coding theory. In this paper, we provide a new lower bound on the size of $t$-fold $s$-blocking sets without the condition $t \leq q$, which is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Hao Chen , Xu Pan , Conghui Xie

Recently, minimal linear codes have been extensively studied due to their applications in secret sharing schemes, two-party computations, and so on. Constructing minimal linear codes violating the Ashikhmin-Barg condition and then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Haibo Liu Qunying Liao , Canze Zhu

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

In recent years, there have been many constructions of minimal linear codes violating the Ashikhmin-Barg condition from Boolean functions, linear codes with few nonzero weights or partial difference sets. In this paper, we first give a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hao Chen , Yaqi Chen , Conghui Xie , Huimin Lao

Linear codes have attracted considerable attention in coding theory and cryptography due to their significant applications in secret sharing schemes, secure two-party computation, Galois geometries, among others. As two special subclasses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wengang Jin , Kangquan Li , Longjiang Qu

In this paper, we give a geometric characterization of minimal linear codes. In particular, we relate minimal linear codes to cutting blocking sets, introduced in a recent paper by Bonini and Borello. Using this characterization, we derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Gianira Nicoletta Alfarano , Martino Borello , Alessandro Neri

Strong blocking sets and their counterparts, minimal codes, attracted lots of attention in the last years. Combining the concatenating construction of codes with a geometric insight into the minimality condition, we explicitly provide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Daniele Bartoli , Martino Borello

Recently, some infinite families of minimal and optimal binary linear codes were constructed from simplicial complexes by Hyun {\em et al.} We extend this construction method to arbitrary posets. Especially, anti-chains are corresponded to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Jong Yoon Hyun , Hyun Kwang Kim , Yansheng Wu , Qin Yue

This work investigates the structure of rank-metric codes in connection with concepts from finite geometry, most notably the $q$-analogues of projective systems and blocking sets. We also illustrate how to associate a classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Gianira N. Alfarano , Martino Borello , Alessandro Neri , Alberto Ravagnani

Recently, minimal linear codes have been extensively studied due to their applications in secret sharing schemes, secure two-party computations, and so on. Constructing minimal linear codes violating the Ashikhmin-Barg condition and then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Haibo Liu , Xin Guo , Qunying Liao

Minimal linear codes are in one-to-one correspondence with special types of blocking sets of projective spaces over a finite field, which are called strong or cutting blocking sets. In this paper we prove an upper bound on the minimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Tamás Héger , Zoltán Lóránt Nagy

Partial spread is important in finite geometry and can be used to construct linear codes. From the results in (Designs, Codes and Cryptography 90:1-15, 2022) by Xia Li, Qin Yue and Deng Tang, we know that if the number of the elements in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 W. Lu , X. Wu , X. W. Cao , G. J. Luo , X. P. Qin

The main purpose of this paper is to further study the structure, parameters and constructions of the recently introduced minimal codes in the sum-rank metric. These objects form a bridge between the classical minimal codes in the Hamming…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Martino Borello , Ferdinando Zullo

Minimal rank-metric codes or, equivalently, linear cutting blocking sets are characterized in terms of the second generalized rank weight, via their connection with evasiveness properties of the associated $q$-system. Using this result, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Daniele Bartoli , Giuseppe Marino , Alessandro Neri

The setting of projective systems can be used to study the parameters of a projective linear code $\mathcal{C}$. This can be done by considering the intersections of the point set $\Omega$ defined by the columns of a generating matrix for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Angela Aguglia , Luca Giuzzi , Giovanni Longobardi , Viola Siconolfi

Let PG$(r, q)$ be the $r$-dimensional projective space over the finite field ${\rm GF}(q)$. A set $\cal X$ of points of PG$(r, q)$ is a cutting blocking set if for each hyperplane $\Pi$ of PG$(r, q)$ the set $\Pi \cap \cal X$ spans $\Pi$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Daniele Bartoli , Antonio Cossidente , Giuseppe Marino , Francesco Pavese
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