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We propose a new partial decoding algorithm for $m$-interleaved Reed--Solomon (IRS) codes that can decode, with high probability, a random error of relative weight $1-R^{\frac{m}{m+1}}$ at all code rates $R$, in time polynomial in the code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen

A $q$-ary $t$-$(n,w,\lambda)$ design is a collection $\mathcal{A}$ of vectors of weight $w$ in $\mathbb{F}_{q}^{n}$ with the property that every vector of weight $t$ in $\mathbb{F}_{q}^{n}$ is contained in exactly $\lambda$ members of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Xinghao Wu , Junling Zhou

Linear codes with complementary duals (abbreviated LCD) are linear codes whose intersection with their dual is trivial. When they are binary, they play an important role in armoring implementations against side-channel attacks and fault…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Claude Carlet , Sihem Mesnager , Chunming Tang , Yanfeng Qi

The classical Reed-Muller codes over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ are based on evaluations of $m$-variate polynomials of degree at most $d$ over a product set $U^m$, for some $d$ less than $|U|$. Because of their good distance properties,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Swastik Kopparty , Mrinal Kumar , Harry Sha

Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) self-dual codes are of significant theoretical and practical importance. Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are the most prominent MDS codes. Correspondingly there have been many research on constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Chun'e Zhao , Wenping Ma

In this paper, we develop a new decoding algorithm of a binary linear codes for symbol-pair read channels. Symbol-pair read channel has recently been introduced by Cassuto and Blaum to model channels with high write resolution but low read…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Shunsuke Horii , Toshiyasu Matsushima , Shigeichi Hirasawa

Linear codes with a few weights are an important class of codes in coding theory and have attracted a lot of attention. In this paper, we present several constructions of $q$-ary linear codes with two or three weights from vectorial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jiaxin Wang , Zexia Shi , Yadi Wei , Fang-Wei Fu

Near MDS (NMDS) codes are closely related to interesting objects in finite geometry and have nice applications in combinatorics and cryptography. But there are many unsolved problems about construction of NMDS codes. In this paper, by using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Shanqi Pang , Chaomeng Zhang , Mengqian Chen , Miaomiao Zhang

Codes in the sum-rank metric have received many attentions in recent years, since they have wide applications in the multishot network coding, the space-time coding and the distributed storage. In this paper, by constructing covering codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Chao Liu , Hao Chen , Qinqin Ji , Ziyan Xie , Dabin Zheng , Yongbo Xia

By exploiting the connection between scattered $\mathbb{F}_q$-subspaces of $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}^3$ and minimal non degenerate $3$-dimensional rank metric codes of $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}^{n}$, $n \geq m+2$, described in [2], we will exhibit a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Stefano Lia , Giovanni Longobardi , Giuseppe Marino , Rocco Trombetti

This paper investigates the theory of sum-rank metric codes for which the individual matrix blocks may have different sizes. Various bounds on the cardinality of a code are derived, along with their asymptotic extensions. The duality theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Eimear Byrne , Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Alberto Ravagnani

Let $\mathscr{S}_n(q)$ denote the set of symmetric bilinear forms over an $n$-dimensional $\mathbb{F}_q$-vector space. A subset $\mathcal{C}$ of $\mathscr{S}_n(q)$ is called a $d$-code if the rank of $A-B$ is larger than or equal to $d$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Wei Tang , Yue Zhou

Let $\mathscr{Q}(m,q)$ and $\mathscr{S}(m,q)$ be the sets of quadratic forms and symmetric bilinear forms on an $m$-dimensional vector space over $\mathbb{F}_q$, respectively. The orbits of $\mathscr{Q}(m,q)$ and $\mathscr{S}(m,q)$ under a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Kai-Uwe Schmidt

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes facilitate the achievement of elevated levels of fault tolerance in storage systems while incurring minimal redundancy overhead. Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are typical MDS codes with the sub-packetization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

Let $n$ be a prime power, $r$ be a prime with $r\mid n-1$, and $\varepsilon\in (0,1/2)$. Using the theory of multiplicative character sums and superelliptic curves, we construct new codes over $\mathbb F_r$ having length $n$, relative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Giacomo Cherubini , Giacomo Micheli

For a linear code $C$ over a finite field, if its dual code $C^{\perp}$ is equivalent to itself, then the code $C$ is said to be {\it isometry-dual}. In this paper, we first confirm a conjecture about the isometry-dual MDS elliptic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yunlong Zhu , Chang-An Zhao

Maximum distance separable (in short, MDS), near MDS (in short, NMDS), and self-orthogonal codes play a pivotal role in algebraic coding theory, particularly in applications such as quantum communications and secret sharing scheme.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhonghao Liang , Chenlu Jia , Dongmei Huang , Qunying Liao , Chunming Tang

Lifted Reed-Solomon codes and multiplicity codes are two classes of evaluation codes that allow for the design of high-rate codes that can recover every codeword or information symbol from many disjoint sets. Recently, the underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Lukas Holzbaur , Rina Polyanskaya , Nikita Polyanskii , Ilya Vorobyev , Eitan Yaakobi

By generalizing the stabilizer quantum error-correcting codes, entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting (EAQEC) codes were introduced, which could be derived from any classical linear codes via the relaxation of self-orthogonality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xiujing Zheng , Liqi Wang , Shixin Zhu

The GM-MDS theorem, conjectured by Dau-Song-Dong-Yuen and proved by Lovett and Yildiz-Hassibi, shows that the generator matrices of Reed-Solomon codes can attain every possible configuration of zeros for an MDS code. The recently emerging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Joshua Brakensiek , Manik Dhar , Sivakanth Gopi