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In the recent years, the notion of rank metric in the context of coding theory has known many interesting developments in terms of applications such as space time coding, network coding or public key cryptography. These applications raised…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Alain Couvreur , Thomas Debris-Alazard , Philippe Gaborit

Rank-metric codes are subspaces of matrices over finite fields endowed with the rank metric and admit a natural tensorial representation. The tensor rank provides a measure of the minimal size of a decomposition of a code into rank-one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Matteo Bonini , Eimear Byrne , Giuseppe Cotardo

The projective space of order $n$ over a finite field $\F_q$ is a set of all subspaces of the vector space $\F_q^{n}$. In this work, we consider error-correcting codes in the projective space, focusing mainly on constant dimension codes. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Natalia Silberstein

Many enumeration problems in combinatorics, including such fundamental questions as the number of regular graphs, can be expressed as high-dimensional complex integrals. Motivated by the need for a systematic study of the asymptotic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Mikhail Isaev , Brendan D. McKay

In this paper we give a randomized reduction for the Rank Syndrome Decoding problem and Rank Minimum Distance problem for rank codes. Our results are based on an embedding from linear codes equipped with Hamming distance unto linear codes…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Gaborit Philippe , Zemor Gilles

This paper investigates general properties of codes with the rank metric. We first investigate asymptotic packing properties of rank metric codes. Then, we study sphere covering properties of rank metric codes, derive bounds on their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maximilien Gadouleau , Zhiyuan Yan

We compare the two duality theories of rank-metric codes proposed by Delsarte and Gabidulin, proving that the former generalizes the latter. We also give an elementary proof of MacWilliams identities for the general case of Delsarte…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-03 Alberto Ravagnani

In this paper, we develop a geometric framework for matrix rank-metric codes based on generator tensors and their slice spaces. To every nondegenerate matrix rank-metric code, we associate two systems, which translate metric properties of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Gianira N. Alfarano , Martino Borello , Alessandro Neri

This is a chapter of the upcoming "A Concise Encyclopedia of Coding Theory", W.C. Huffman, J.-L. Kim, and P. Sole' Eds., CRC Press. The chapter gives an introduction to the mathematical theory of rank-metric codes. Treated topics include:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Elisa Gorla

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. Fundamental bounds, some explicit or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hao Chen

We derive simplified sphere-packing and Gilbert--Varshamov bounds for codes in the sum-rank metric, which can be computed more efficiently than previous ones. They give rise to asymptotic bounds that cover the asymptotic setting that has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Cornelia Ott , Sven Puchinger , Martin Bossert

Constant-dimension codes have recently received attention due to their significance to error control in noncoherent random network coding. In this paper, we show that constant-rank codes are closely related to constant-dimension codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-07 Maximilien Gadouleau , Zhiyuan Yan

The problem of error control in random linear network coding is addressed from a matrix perspective that is closely related to the subspace perspective of K\"otter and Kschischang. A large class of constant-dimension subspace codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang , Ralf Kötter

This paper investigates the construction of rank-metric codes with specified Ferrers diagram shapes. These codes play a role in the multilevel construction for subspace codes. A conjecture from 2009 provides an upper bound for the dimension…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jared Antrobus , Heide Gluesing-Luerssen

The set of all error-correcting codes C over a fixed finite alphabet F of cardinality q determines the set of code points in the unit square with coordinates (R(C), delta (C)):= (relative transmission rate, relative minimal distance). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yuri I. Manin , Matilde Marcolli

We determine the asymptotic proportion of free modules over finite chain rings with good distance properties and treat the asymptotics in the code length n and the residue field size q separately. We then specialize and apply our technique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Anna-Lena Horlemann , Violetta Weger , Nadja Willenborg

The rank metric measures the distance between two matrices by the rank of their difference. Codes designed for the rank metric have attracted considerable attention in recent years, reinforced by network coding and further motivated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Hannes Bartz , Lukas Holzbaur , Hedongliang Liu , Sven Puchinger , Julian Renner , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We investigate the Whitney numbers of the first kind of rank-metric lattices, which are closely linked to the open problem of enumerating rank-metric codes having prescribed parameters. We apply methods from the theory of hyperovals and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Giuseppe Cotardo , Alberto Ravagnani , Ferdinando Zullo

This paper considers the problem of channel coding with a given (possibly suboptimal) maximum-metric decoding rule. A cost-constrained random-coding ensemble with multiple auxiliary costs is introduced, and is shown to achieve error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Jonathan Scarlett , Alfonso Martinez , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

In the realm of rank-metric codes, Maximum Rank Distance (MRD) codes are optimal algebraic structures attaining the Singleton-like bound. A major open problem in this field is determining whether an MRD code can be extended to a longer one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Daniele Bartoli , Alessandro Giannoni , Giuseppe Marino , Alessandro Neri