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We present the theory of linear rank-metric codes from the point of view of their fundamental parameters. These are: the minimum rank distance, the rank distribution, the maximum rank, the covering radius, and the field size. The focus of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Anina Gruica , Altan B. Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

We study perfect codes in the sum-rank metric, a generalization of both the Hamming and rank metrics relevant in multishot network coding and space-time coding. A perfect code attains equality in the sphere-packing bound, corresponding to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Giuseppe Del Prete , Antonio Roccolano , Ferdinando Zullo

Sum-rank codes are an important class of codes which can be utilized for linear network coding, space-time coding and distributed storage. They can not only reduce the size of network alphabet but also detect and correct more errors. Based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Qingfeng Xia , Hongwei Liu , Hao Chen , Xu Pan

We consider linear codes over some fixed finite field extension over an arbitrary finite field. Gabidulin introduced rank metric codes, by endowing linear codes over the extension field with a rank weight over the base field and studied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-01 Jérôme Ducoat

Just as rank-metric or Gabidulin codes may be used to construct rate-diversity tradeoff optimal space-time codes, a recently introduced generalization for the sum-rank metric -- linearized Reed-Solomon codes -- accomplishes the same in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Mohannad Shehadeh , Frank R. Kschischang

Sum-rank metric codes are a natural extension of both linear block codes and rank-metric codes. They have several applications in information theory, including multishot network coding and distributed storage systems. The aim of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Elisa Gorla , Umberto Martínez-Peñas , Flavio Salizzoni

Security of linear ramp secret sharing schemes can be characterized by the relative generalized Hamming weights of the involved codes. In this paper we elaborate on the implication of these parameters and we devise a method to estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Olav Geil , Stefano Martin , Ryutaroh Matsumoto , Diego Ruano , Yuan Luo

We study properties of rank metric and codes in rank metric over finite fields. We show that in rank metric perfect codes do not exist. We derive an existence bound that is the equivalent of the Gilbert--Varshamov bound in Hamming metric.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-07-13 P. Loidreau

Sum-rank-metric codes have wide applications in the multishot network coding and the distributed storage. Linearized Reed-Solomon codes, sum-rank BCH codes and their Welch-Berlekamp type decoding algorithms were proposed and studied. They…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Hao Chen , Yanfeng Qi , Zhiqiang Cheng

Rank-metric codes, defined as sets of matrices over a finite field with the rank distance, have gained significant attention due to their applications in network coding and connections to diverse mathematical areas. Initially studied by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Alessandro Neri , Ferdinando Zullo

In this paper, several infinite families of codes over the extension of non-unital non-commutative rings are constructed utilizing general simplicial complexes. Thanks to the special structure of the defining sets, the principal parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yanan Wu , Tingting Pang , Nian Li , Yanbin Pan , Xiangyong Zeng

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

In this article, the minimum distance of the dual $C^{\bot}$ of a functional code $C$ on an arbitrary dimensional variety $X$ over a finite field $\F_q$ is studied. The approach consists in finding minimal configurations of points on $X$…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-18 A. Couvreur

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 paper, we investigate geometrical properties of the rank metric space and covering properties of rank metric codes. We first establish an analytical expression for the intersection of two balls with rank radii, and then derive an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Maximilien Gadouleau , Zhiyuan Yan

In this paper we study the algebraic-geometry of any one-point code on the Hermitian curve. Moreover, we characterize the minimum-weight codewords of some of their dual codes and describe many their small-weight codewords.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-12 Edoardo Ballico , Alberto Ravagnani

Nested code pairs play a crucial role in the construction of ramp secret sharing schemes [Kurihara et al. 2012] and in the CSS construction of quantum codes [Ketkar et al. 2006]. The important parameters are (1) the codimension, (2) the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-03 René Bødker Christensen , Olav Geil

Few-weight codes have been constructed and studied for many years, since their fascinating relations to finite geometries, strongly regular graphs and Boolean functions. Simplex codes are one-weight Griesmer $[\frac{q^k-1}{q-1},k…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xu Pan , Hao Chen , Hongwei Liu , Shengwei Liu

We consider the geometric problem of determining the maximum number $n_q(r,h,f;s)$ of $(h-1)$-spaces in the projective space $\operatorname{PG}(r-1,q)$ such that each subspace of codimension $f$ does contain at most $s$ elements. In coding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jozefien D'haeseleer , Sascha Kurz

We study the algebraic geometry of a family of evaluation codes from plane smooth curves defined over any field. In particular, we provide a cohomological characterization of their dual minimum distance. After having discussed some general…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Edoardo Ballico , Alberto Ravagnani