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In this paper we find the second generalized Hamming weight of some evaluation codes arising from a projective torus, and it allows to compute the second generalized Hamming weight of the codes parameterized by the edges of any complete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Manuel González Sarabia , Eduardo Camps , Eliseo Sarmiento , Rafael H. Villarreal

Skew polynomial rings provide a fundamental example of noncommutative principal ideal domains. Special quotients of these rings yield matrix algebras that play a central role in the theory of rank-metric codes. Recent breakthroughs have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 José Gómez-Torrecillas , F. J. Lobillo , Gabriel Navarro , Paolo Santonastaso

The evaluation of the minimum distance of linear block codes remains an open problem in coding theory, and it is not easy to determine its true value by classical methods, for this reason the problem has been solved in the literature with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Mohamed Askali , Ahmed Azouaoui , Saïd Nouh , Mostafa Belkasmi

A generic construction of linear codes over finite fields has recently received a lot of attention, and many one-weight, two-weight and three-weight codes with good error correcting capability have been produced with this generic approach.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Can Xiang

We derive a general lower bound for the generalized Hamming weights of nested matrix-product codes, with a particular emphasis on the cases with two and three constituent codes. We also provide an upper bound which is reminiscent of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Rodrigo San-José

Linear codes with a few weights are very important in coding theory and have attracted a lot of attention. In this paper, we present a construction of $q$-ary linear codes from trace and norm functions over finite fields. The weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Ziling Heng , Qin Yue

Generalized pair weights of linear codes are generalizations of minimum symbol-pair weights, which were introduced by Liu and Pan \cite{LP} recently. Generalized pair weights can be used to characterize the ability of protecting information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hongwei Liu , Xu Pan

A sharp upper bound for the maximum integer not belonging to an ideal of a numerical semigroup is given and the ideals attaining this bound are characterized. Then the result is used, through the so-called Feng-Rao numbers, to bound the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Maria Bras-Amorós , Kwankyu Lee , Albert Vico-Oton

This article explores additive codes with one-rank hull, offering key insights and constructions. The article introduces a novel approach to finding one-rank hull codes over finite fields by establishing a connection between self-orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Astha Agrawal , R. K. Sharma

Projective metrics on vector spaces over finite fields, introduced by Gabidulin and Simonis in 1997, generalize classical metrics in coding theory like the Hamming metric, rank metric, and combinatorial metrics. While these specific metrics…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Gabor Riccardi , Hugo Sauerbier Couvée

According to Kumar's recent surprising result (ToCT'20), a small border Waring rank implies that the polynomial can be approximated as a sum of a constant and a small product of linear polynomials. We prove the converse of Kumar's result…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Pranjal Dutta , Fulvio Gesmundo , Christian Ikenmeyer , Gorav Jindal , Vladimir Lysikov

Independent parallel q-ary symmetric channels are a suitable transmission model for several applications. The proposed weighted-Hamming metric is tailored to this setting and enables optimal decoding performance. We show that some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Sebastian Bitzer , Alberto Ravagnani , Violetta Weger

There are several methods for constructing secret sharing schemes, one of which is based on coding theory. Theoretically, every linear code can be used to construct secret sharing schemes. However, in general, determining the access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Yun Song , Zhihui Li

This preprint is of a chapter to appear in {\it Combinatorics and finite fields: Difference sets, polynomials, pseudorandomness and applications. Radon Series on Computational and Applied Mathematics}, K.-U. Schmidt and A. Winterhof (eds.).…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-12 John Sheekey

Linear error-correcting codes can be used for constructing secret sharing schemes; however finding in general the access structures of these secret sharing schemes and, in particular, determining efficient access structures is difficult.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Angela Aguglia , Michela Ceria , Luca Giuzzi

Linear codes have diverse applications in secret sharing schemes, secure two-party computation, association schemes, strongly regular graphs, authentication codes and communication. There are a large number of linear codes with few weights…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ahmet Sınak

This paper examines linear binary codes capable of correcting one or more errors. For the single-error-correcting case, it is shown that the Hamming bound is achieved by a constructive method, and an exact expression for the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Timofei Izhitskii

The sum-rank metric provides a unifying framework that generalizes both the celebrated Hamming and rank metrics, and has found applications in areas such as network coding, distributed storage, and space-time coding. A central problem is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Aida Abiad , Antonina P. Khramova , Sven C. Polak , Ferdinando Zullo

We show how the theory of affine geometries over the ring ${\mathbb Z}/\langle q - 1\rangle$ can be used to understand the properties of toric and generalized toric codes over ${\mathbb F}_q$. The minimum distance of these codes is strongly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 John B. Little

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