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The rank decoding problem has been the subject of much attention in this last decade. This problem, which is at the base of the security of public-key cryptosystems based on rank metric codes, is traditionally studied over finite fields.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Hervé Tale Kalachi , Hermann Tchatchiem Kamche

In this paper, we introduce a novel explicit family of subcodes of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that efficiently achieve list decoding capacity with a constant output list size. Our approach builds upon the idea of large linear subcodes of RS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Amit Berman , Yaron Shany , Itzhak Tamo

We consider decoding of vertically homogeneous interleaved sum-rank-metric codes with high interleaving order $s$, that are constructed by stacking $s$ codewords of a single constituent code. We propose a Metzner--Kapturowski-like decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Thomas Jerkovits , Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

Subspace codes were introduced in order to correct errors and erasures for randomized network coding, in the case where network topology is unknown (the noncoherent case). Subspace codes are indeed collections of subspaces of a certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Hessam Mahdavifar , Alexander Vardy

Motivated by applications to the theory of rank-metric codes, we study the problem of estimating the number of common complements of a family of subspaces over a finite field in terms of the cardinality of the family and its intersection…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Anina Gruica , Alberto Ravagnani

Generalized concatenated codes were introduced in the 1970s by Zinoviev. There are many types of codes in the literature that are known by other names that can be viewed as generalized concatenated codes. Examples include matrix-product…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Ferdinand Blomqvist , Oliver W. Gnilke , Marcus Greferath

In this article we construct a new family of linear maximum rank distance (MRD) codes for all parameters. This family contains the only known family for general parameters, the Gabidulin codes, and contains codes inequivalent to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-08 John Sheekey

The main purpose of this paper is to further study the structure, parameters and constructions of the recently introduced minimal codes in the sum-rank metric. These objects form a bridge between the classical minimal codes in the Hamming…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Martino Borello , Ferdinando Zullo

In this paper, we study linear spaces of matrices defined over discretely valued fields and discuss their dimension and minimal rank drops over the associated residue fields. To this end, we take first steps into the theory of rank-metric…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Yassine El Maazouz , Marvin Anas Hahn , Alessandro Neri , Mima Stanojkovski

In coding theory, a common question is to understand the threshold rates of various local properties of codes, such as their list decodability and list recoverability. A recent work Levi, Mosheiff, and Shagrithaya (FOCS 2025) gave a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Joshua Brakensiek , Yeyuan Chen , Manik Dhar , Zihan Zhang

Reed--Solomon error-correcting codes are ubiquitous across computer science and information theory, with applications in cryptography, computational complexity, communication and storage systems, and more. Most works on efficient error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chris Peikert , Alexandra Veliche Hostetler

Let $X=X(n,q)$ be the set of $n\times n$ Hermitian matrices over $\mathbb{F}_{q^2}$. It is well known that $X$ gives rise to a metric translation association scheme whose classes are induced by the rank metric. We study $d$-codes in this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-18 Kai-Uwe Schmidt

A recent paper by Coggia and Couvreur presents a polynomial time key-recovery attack on Loidreau's encryption scheme, based on rank-metric codes, for some parameters. The secret matrix component of Loidreau's scheme is chosen over a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Anirban Ghatak

The public key cryptosystem based on rank error correcting codes (the GPT cryptosystem) was proposed in 1991. Use of rank codes in cryptographic applications is advantageous since it is practically impossible to utilize combinatoric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ernst M. Gabidulin , Haitham Rashwan , Bahram Honary

This paper presents encoding and decoding algorithms for several families of optimal rank metric codes whose codes are in restricted forms of symmetric, alternating and Hermitian matrices. First, we show the evaluation encoding is the right…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wrya K. Kadir , Chunlei Li , Ferdinando Zullo

Let $p$ be a prime such that $p \equiv 2$ or $3$ mod $5$. Linear block codes over the non-commutative matrix ring of $2 \times 2$ matrices over the prime field $GF(p)$ endowed with the Bachoc weight are derived as isometric images of linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Bryan Hernandez , Virgilio Sison

In this paper we study properties and invariants of matrix codes endowed with the rank metric, and relate them to the covering radius. We introduce new tools for the analysis of rank-metric codes, such as puncturing and shortening…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Eimear Byrne , Alberto Ravagnani

This paper contributes to the study of rank-metric codes from an algebraic and combinatorial point of view. We introduce $q$-polymatroids, the $q$-analogue of polymatroids, and develop their basic properties. We associate a pair of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Elisa Gorla , Relinde Jurrius , Hiram H. López , Alberto Ravagnani

Intersecting codes are a classical object in coding theory whose rank-metric analogue has recently been introduced. Although the definition formally parallels the Hamming-metric case, the structure and parameter constraints of rank-metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Martino Borello , Olga Polverino , Ferdinando Zullo

We introduce and explore a new concept of evasive subspace with respect to a collection of subspaces sharing a common dimension, most notably partial spreads. We show that this concept generalises known notions of subspace scatteredness and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Anina Gruica , Alberto Ravagnani , John Sheekey , Ferdinando Zullo