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Currently known secondary construction techniques for linear codes mainly include puncturing, shortening, and extending. In this paper, we propose a novel method for the secondary construction of linear codes based on their weight…

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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…

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Linearized Reed-Solomon codes are defined. Higher weight distribution of those codes are determined.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Haode Yan , Yan Liu , Chunlei Liu

Usually, it is difficult to determine the weight distribution of an irreducible cyclic code. In this paper, we discuss the case when an irreducible cyclic code has the maximal number of distinct nonzero weights and give a necessary and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Chunming Tang , Yanfeng Qi , Maozhi Xu , Baocheng Wang , Yixian Yang

Quantum maximal-distance-separable (MDS) codes form an important class of quantum codes. It is very hard to construct quantum MDS codes with relatively large minimum distance. In this paper, based on classical constacyclic codes, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Liqi Wang , Shixin Zhu

Linear codes with a few weights have important applications in authentication codes, secret sharing, consumer electronics, etc.. The determination of the parameters such as Hamming weight distributions and complete weight enumerators of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Minglong Qi , Shengwu Xiong , Jingling Yuan , Wenbi Rao , Luo Zhong

The Doob scheme $D(m,n'+n'')$ is a metric association scheme defined on $E_4^m \times F_4^{n'}\times Z_4^{n''}$, where $E_4=GR(4^2)$ or, alternatively, on $Z_4^{2m} \times Z_2^{2n'} \times Z_4^{n''}$. We prove the MacWilliams identities…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Denis S. Krotov

Soft noncoherent detection, which relies on calculating the \textit{a posteriori} probabilities (APPs) of the bits transmitted with no channel estimation, is imperative for achieving excellent detection performance in high-dimensional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Chanfei Wang , Tiejun Lv , Hui Gao , Shaoshi Yang

Two-weight linear codes are linear codes in which any nonzero codeword can have only two possible distinct weights. Those in the Hamming metric have proven to be very interesting for their connections with authentication codes, association…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ferdinando Zullo , Olga Polverino , Paolo Santonastaso , John Sheekey

In this expository paper we show how one can, in a uniform way, calculate the weight distributions of some well-known binary cyclic codes. The codes are related to certain families of curves, and the weight distributions are related to the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-06 René Schoof

Array codes have been widely used in communication and storage systems. To reduce computational complexity, one important property of the array codes is that only XOR operation is used in the encoding and decoding process. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han

The singleton defect of an $[n,k,d]$ linear code ${\cal C}$ is defined as $s({\cal C})=n-k+1-d$. Codes with $S({\cal C})=0$ are called maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, and codes with $S(\cal C)=S(\cal C ^{\bot})=1$ are called near…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Li Xu , Cuiling Fan , Dongchun Han

Cross-modal alignment is a crucial task in multimodal learning aimed at achieving semantic consistency between vision and language. This requires that image-text pairs exhibit similar semantics. Traditional algorithms pursue embedding…

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Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are optimal where the minimum distance cannot be improved for a given length and code size. Twisted Reed-Solomon codes over finite fields were introduced in 2017, which are generalization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hongwei Liu , Shengwei Liu

Irreducible cyclic codes are an interesting type of codes and have applications in space communications. They have been studied for decades and a lot of progress has been made. The objectives of this paper are to survey and extend earlier…

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Mass and full width of the heavy scalar molecule $\mathcal{M}$ composed of the mesons $B_{c}^{+}$ and $B_{c}^{-}$ are calculated in the QCD sum rule framework. To find its mass and current coupling, we apply the two-point sum rule method.…

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In Index coding there is a single sender with multiple messages and multiple receivers each wanting a different set of messages and knowing a different set of messages a priori. The Index Coding problem is to identify the minimum number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kavitha. R , B. Sundar Rajan

A Space-Time Block Code (STBC) in $K$ symbols (variables) is called $g$-group decodable STBC if its maximum-likelihood decoding metric can be written as a sum of $g$ terms such that each term is a function of a subset of the $K$ variables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Sanjay Karmakar , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper develops an algorithmic approach for obtaining estimates of the weight enumerators of Reed-Muller (RM) codes. Our algorithm is based on a technique for estimating the partition functions of spin systems, which in turn employs a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shreyas Jain , V. Arvind Rameshwar , Navin Kashyap

It has been shown recently that the maximum rate of a 2-real-symbol (single-complex-symbol) maximum likelihood (ML) decodable, square space-time block codes (STBCs) with unitary weight matrices is $\frac{2a}{2^a}$ complex symbols per…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Teja Damodaram Bavirisetti , B. Sundar Rajan