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This paper introduces a new family of reconstruction codes which is motivated by applications in DNA data storage and sequencing. In such applications, DNA strands are sequenced by reading some subset of their substrings. While previous…

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Due to the wide applications in consumer electronics, data storage systems and communication systems, cyclic codes have been an interesting research topic in coding theory. In this paper, let $p$ be a prime with $p\ge 7$. We determine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Xia Li , Qin Yue

The matrix completion problem provides a unifying lens through which many fundamental problems in coding theory can be viewed. In this paper, we investigate Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs) with Maximal Recoverability (MR) and Maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sakshi Dang , Julia Lieb , Pedro Soto , Alex Sprintson

Polycyclic codes offer a natural generalization of cyclic codes and provide a broader algebraic framework for constructing linear codes with good parameters. In this paper, we study binary polycyclic codes associated with powers of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sujata Bansal , Pramod Kumar Kewat

Let $p$ be an odd prime. The factorization of the polynomial $x^{p+1}-1$ over the integer residue ring $\mathbb{Z}_{p^e}$ is pivotal for constructing cyclic codes with Hermitian symmetry, a critical resource for Linear Complementary Dual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yongchao Wang , Yang Ding , Jiansheng Yang , Zhiqiu Huang

Motivated by applications in polymer-based data storage, we study the problem of reconstructing a string from part of its composition multiset. We give a full description of the structure of the strings that cannot be uniquely reconstructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zuo Ye , Ohad Elishco

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have significant combinatorial and cryptographic applications due to their certain optimality. Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are the most prominent MDS codes. Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chun'e Zhao , Wenping Ma , Tongjiang Yan , Yuhua Sun

In this paper we present a procedure to build the set of irreducible numerical semigroups with a fixed Frobenius number. The construction gives us a rooted tree structure for this set. Furthermore, by using the notion of Kunz-coordinates…

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We introduce new families of quantum Tanner codes, a class of quantum codes that first appeared in the work of Leverrier and Z\'emor (FOCS 2022). These codes are built from two classical Tanner codes, for which the underlying graphs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Virgile Guémard , Gilles Zémor

We propose a couple of oracle construction methods for quantum pattern matching. We in turn show that one of the construct can be used with the Grover's search algorithm for exact and partial pattern matching, deterministically. The other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Vikram Menon , Ayan Chattopadhyay

Within biology, it is of interest to construct DNA complexes of a certain shape. These complexes can be represented through graph theory, using edges to model strands of DNA joined at junctions, represented by vertices. Because guided…

In this paper, we initiate the study of Extended Gabidulin codes with a Kronecker product structure and propose three enhanced variants of the Rank Quasi-Cyclic (RQC) (Melchor et.al., IEEE IT, 2018) cryptosystem. First, we establish precise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhe Sun , Terry Shue Chien Lau , Mengying Zhao , Zimeng Zhou , Fang-Wei Fu

In this work, our main objective is to construct quantum codes from quasi-twisted (QT) codes. At first, a necessary and sufficient condition for Hermitian self-orthogonality of QT codes is introduced by virtue of the Chinese Remainder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Jingjie Lv , Ruihu Li , Junli Wang

Let $\mathscr{R}_{e,m}$ denote a finite commutative chain ring of even characteristic with maximal ideal $\langle u \rangle$ of nilpotency index $e \geq 3,$ Teichm$\ddot{u}$ller set $\mathcal{T}_{m},$ and residue field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Monika Yadav , Anuradha Sharma

This paper proposes a new family of recursive systematic convolutional codes, defined in the non-binary domain over different Galois fields GF(q) and intended to be used as component codes for the design of non-binary turbo codes. A general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Rami Klaimi , Charbel Abdel Nour , Catherine Douillard , Joumana Farah

In this paper, we study the Hermitian hulls of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes over finite fields. For a given class of GRS codes, by extending the length, increasing the dimension, and extending the length and increasing the dimension…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Ruhao Wan , Shixin Zhu

We study the problem of coded information retrieval for block-structured data, motivated by DNA-based storage systems where a database is partitioned into multiple files that must each be recoverable as an atomic unit. We initiate and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Daniella Bar-Lev

We propose a new distance metric for DNA sequences, which can be defined on any evolutionary Markov model with infinitesimal generator matrix Q. That is the new metric can be defined under existing models such as Jukes-Cantor model,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-02-12 Viswanath. C. Narayanan

We describe a strategy for constructing codes for DNA-based information storage by serial composition of weighted finite-state transducers. The resulting state machines can integrate correction of substitution errors; synchronization by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ian Holmes

In this paper, two classes of quantum MDS codes are constructed. The main tools are multiplicative structures on finite fields. Carefully choosing different cosets can make the corresponding generalized Reed-Solomon codes Hermitian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Puyin Wang , Jinquan Luo