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We first establish a simple yet powerful necessary and sufficient condition for a binary linear code to be SO, leading to a complete characterization of singly-even codes in this family. We further derive necessary and sufficient conditions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Kangquan Li , Hao Chen , Wengang Jin , Longjiang Qu

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

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

In recent years, many connections have been made between minimal codes, a classical object in coding theory, and other remarkable structures in finite geometry and combinatorics. One of the main problems related to minimal codes is to give…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Martin Scotti

Inspired by prior work by Tian and by Cao and Xu, this paper presents an efficient computer-aided framework to characterize the fundamental limits of coded caching systems under the constraint of linear coding. The proposed framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niccolò Brembilla , Yinbin Ma , Pietro Belotti , Federico Malucelli , Daniela Tuninetti

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

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

In this paper we investigate bounds on rate and minimum distance of codes with $t$ availability. We present bounds on minimum distance of a code with $t$ availability that are tighter than existing bounds. For bounds on rate of a code with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 S. B. Balaji , P. Vijay Kumar

Minimal codewords have applications in decoding linear codes and in cryptography. We study the maximum number of minimal codewords in binary linear codes of a given length and dimension. Improved lower and upper bounds on the maximum number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Romar dela Cruz , Sascha Kurz

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

The study on minimal linear codes has received great attention due to their significant applications in secret sharing schemes and secure two-party computation. Until now, numerous minimal linear codes have been discovered. However, to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yanjun Li , Haibin Kan , Fangfang Liu , Jie Peng , Lijing Zheng , Zepeng Zhuo

In this article, We introduce a condition that is both necessary and sufficient for a linear code to achieve minimality when analyzed over the rings $\mathbb{Z}_{n}$.The fundamental inquiry in minimal linear codes is the existence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Biplab Chatterjee , Ratnesh Kumar Mishra

In this paper, several infinite families of codes over the extension of non-unital non-commutative rings are constructed utilizing general simplicial complexes. Thanks to the special structure of the defining sets, the principal parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yanan Wu , Tingting Pang , Nian Li , Yanbin Pan , Xiangyong Zeng

This paper examines linear binary codes capable of correcting one or more errors. For the single-error-correcting case, it is shown that the Hamming bound is achieved by a constructive method, and an exact expression for the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Timofei Izhitskii

Batch codes are of potential use for load balancing and private information retrieval in distributed data storage systems. Recently, a special case of batch codes, termed functional batch codes, was proposed in the literature. In functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kristiina Oksner , Henk D. L. Hollmann , Ago-Erik Riet , Vitaly Skachek

We examine an error-correcting coding framework in which each coded symbol is constrained to be a function of a fixed subset of the message symbols. With an eye toward distributed storage applications, we seek to design systematic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Wael Halbawi , Matthew Thill , Babak Hassibi

Over the past few years, the codes $\mathcal{C}_{n-1}(n,q)$ arising from the incidence of points and hyperplanes in the projective space $\text{PG}(n,q)$ attracted a lot of attention. In particular, small weight codewords of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Daniele Bartoli , Lins Denaux

Recently, much progress has been made to construct minimal linear codes due to their preference in secret sharing schemes and secure two-party computation. In this paper, we put forward a new method to construct minimal linear codes by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yanjun Li , Jie Peng , Haibin Kan , Lijing Zheng

Additive codes may have better parameters than linear codes. However, still very few cases are known and the explicit construction of such codes is a challenging problem. Here we show that a Griesmer type bound for the length of additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Sascha Kurz

A lower bound on the number of uncorrectable errors of weight half the minimum distance is derived for binary linear codes satisfying some condition. The condition is satisfied by some primitive BCH codes, extended primitive BCH codes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-30 Kenji Yasunaga , Toru Fujiwara