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A sum-rank-metric code attaining the Singleton bound is called maximum sum-rank distance (MSRD). MSRD codes have been constructed for some parameter cases. In this paper we construct a linear MSRD code over an arbitrary field ${\bf F}_q$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Hao Chen

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

Sum-rank metric codes have recently attracted the attention of many researchers, due to their relevance in several applications. Mathematically, the sum-rank metric is a natural generalization of both the Hamming metric and the rank metric.…

A basic problem for the constant dimension subspace coding is to determine the maximal possible size A_q (n, d, k) of a set of k-dimensional subspaces in Fnq such that the subspace distance satisfies d(U, V )> or =d for any two different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Hao Chen , Xianmang He , Jian Weng , Liqing Xu

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

We construct six new explicit families of linear maximum sum-rank distance (MSRD) codes, each of which has the smallest field sizes among all known MSRD codes for some parameter regime. Using them and a previous result of the author, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

This paper introduces new constructions of sum-rank metric codes derived from algebraic function fields, as existing results on such codes remain limited. A major challenge lies in the determination of their parameters. We address this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhu Yunlong , Zhao Chang-An

Reed-Solomon codes and Gabidulin codes have maximum Hamming distance and maximum rank distance, respectively. A general construction using skew polynomials, called skew Reed-Solomon codes, has already been introduced in the literature. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

The sum-rank metric arises as an algebraic approach for coding in MIMO block-fading channels and multishot network coding. Codes designed in the sum-rank metric have raised interest in applications such as streaming codes, robust coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Cornelia Ott , Hedongliang Liu , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Guruswami and Xing introduced subspace designs in 2013 to give the first construction of positive rate rank metric codes list-decodable beyond half the distance. In this paper we provide bounds involving the parameters of a subspace design,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Paolo Santonastaso , Ferdinando Zullo

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

We study $q$-ary codes with distance defined by a partial order of the coordinates of the codewords. Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes in the poset metric have been studied in a number of earlier works. We consider codes that are close…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-03 Alexander Barg , Punarbasu Purkayastha

We introduce the sum-rank metric analogue of Reed--Muller codes, which we called linearized Reed--Muller codes, using multivariate Ore polynomials. We study the parameters of these codes, compute their dimension and give a lower bound for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Elena Berardini , Xavier Caruso

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

We introduce the concept of a sum-rank saturating system and outline its correspondence to a covering properties of a sum-rank metric code. We consider the problem of determining the shortest sum-rank-$\rho$-saturating systems of a fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Matteo Bonini , Martino Borello , Eimear Byrne

We consider the problem of deriving upper bounds on the parameters of sum-rank-metric codes, with focus on their dimension and block length. The sum-rank metric is a combination of the Hamming and the rank metric, and most of the available…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Aida Abiad , Antonina P. Khramova , Alberto Ravagnani

The tensor product of one code endowed with the Hamming metric and one endowed with the rank metric is analyzed. This gives a code which naturally inherits the sum-rank metric. Specializing to the product of a cyclic code and a skew-cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Gianira N. Alfarano , F. J. Lobillo , Alessandro Neri , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

In this paper we introduce and investigate rank-metric intersecting codes, a new class of linear codes in the rank-metric context, inspired by the well-studied notion of intersecting codes in the Hamming metric. A rank-metric code is said…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Daniele Bartoli , Martino Borello , Giuseppe Marino , Martin Scotti

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

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