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The class of $\ell$-maximum distance separable ($\ell$-MDS) codes {is a} generalization of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes {that} has attracted a lot of attention due to its applications in several areas such as secret sharing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yang Li , Shixin Zhu , Edgar Martínez-Moro

Error-correcting codes are a method for representing data, so that one can recover the original information even if some parts of it were corrupted. The basic idea, which dates back to the revolutionary work of Shannon and Hamming about a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mrinal Kumar , Noga Ron-Zewi

The main theorem in this paper is a far-reaching generalization of Gleason's theorem on the weight enumerators of codes which applies to arbitrary-genus weight enumerators of self-dual codes defined over a large class of finite rings and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Gabriele Nebe , E. M. Rains , N. J. A. Sloane

Motivated by a concept studied in [1], we consider a property of matrices over finite fields that generalizes triangular totally nonsingular matrices to block matrices. We show that (1) matrices with this property suffice to construct good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Pavel Pudlák

For a given linear code $\C$ of length $n$ over $\gf(q)$ and a nonzero vector $\bu$ in $\gf(q)^n$, Sun, Ding and Chen defined an extended linear code $\overline{\C}(\bu)$ of $\C$, which is a generalisation of the classical extended code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yansheng Wu , Cunsheng Ding , Tingfang Chen

Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) self-dual codes are of significant theoretical and practical importance. Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are the most prominent MDS codes. Correspondingly there have been many research on constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Chun'e Zhao , Wenping Ma

Symbol-pair codes introduced by Cassuto and Blaum in 2010 are designed to protect against the pair errors in symbol-pair read channels. One of the central themes in symbol-error correction is the construction of maximal distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Xiuxin Tang , Rong Luo

In the modern era of large-scale computing systems, a crucial use of error correcting codes is to judiciously introduce redundancy to ensure recoverability from failure. To get the most out of every byte, practitioners and theorists have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

In this paper, we provide conditions that hulls of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are also GRS codes from algebraic geometry codes. If the conditions are not satisfied, we provide a method of linear algebra to find the bases of hulls…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Xue Jia , Qin Yue , Huan Sun , Junzhen Sui

Rosenbrock's theorem on polynomial system matrices is a classical result in linear systems theory that relates the Smith-McMillan form of a rational matrix $G$ with the Smith forms of an irreducible polynomial system matrix $P$ giving rise…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Froilán Dopico , Vanni Noferini , Ion Zaballa

The mds (maximum distance separable) conjecture claims that a nontrivial linear mds $[n,k]$ code over the finite field $GF(q)$ satisfies $n \leq (q + 1)$, except when $q$ is even and $k = 3$ or $k = q- 1$ in which case it satisfies $n \leq…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Ted Hurley

In this paper, by using some properties for linear algebra methods, the parity-check matrices for twisted generalized Reed-Solomon codes with any given hook $h$ and twist $t$ are presented, and then a sufficient and necessary condition for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Canze Zhu , Qunying Liao

Understanding the limits of list-decoding and list-recovery of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is of prime interest in coding theory and has attracted a lot of attention in recent decades. However, the best possible parameters for these problems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Eitan Goldberg , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

Both horizontal interleaving as well as the sum-rank metric are currently attractive topics in the field of code-based cryptography, as they could mitigate the problem of large key sizes. In contrast to vertical interleaving, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

In this work, doubly extended linearized Reed--Solomon codes and triply extended Reed--Solomon codes are generalized. We obtain a general result in which we characterize when a multiply extended code for a general metric attains the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

The paper has a threefold purpose. The first purpose is to present an explicit description of expanded cyclic codes defined in $\GF(q^m)$. The proposed explicit construction of expanded generator matrix and expanded parity check matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-08 Yingquan Wu

We extend coded distributed computing over finite fields to allow the number of workers to be larger than the field size. We give codes that work for fully general matrix multiplication and show that in this case we serendipitously have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Gretchen L. Matthews , Pedro Soto

MDS convolutional codes have the property that their free distance is maximal among all codes of the same rate and the same degree. In this paper we introduce a class of MDS convolutional codes whose column distances reach the generalized…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Joachim Rosenthal , Roxana Smarandache

Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) codes are a well-studied family of codes, known for achieving list decoding capacity. In this work, we give improved deterministic and randomized algorithms for list decoding FRS codes of rate $R$ up to radius…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Mursalin Habib , Shashank Srivastava

Folded Reed-Solomon codes, introduced by Guruswami and Rudra in 2007, have been shown to achieve the information-theoretically best possible trade-off between the rate of a code and the error-correction radius. In 2024, Bergamaschi,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Gretchen L. Matthews , Julia Shapiro