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In this article, we provide a complete characterization of codewords in polar codes with weights less than twice the minimum distance, using the group action of the lower triangular affine (LTA) group. We derive a closed-form formula for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Vlad-Florin Dragoi , Mohammad Rowshan

The number of low-weight codewords is critical to the performance of error-correcting codes. In 1970, Kasami and Tokura characterized the codewords of Reed-Muller (RM) codes whose weights are less than $2w_{\min}$, where $w_{\min}$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zicheng Ye , Yuan Li , Huazi Zhang , Jun Wang , Guiying Yan , Zhiming Ma

Polar codes can be viewed as decreasing monomial codes, revealing a rich algebraic structure governed by the lower-triangular affine (LTA) group. We develop a general framework to compute the Hamming weight of codewords generated by sums of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Dragoi

Polar codes are constructed based on the reliability of sub-channels resulting from the polarization effect. However, this information-theoretic construction approach leads to a poor weight distribution. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Dragoi

Minimum weight codewords play a crucial role in the error correction performance of a linear block code. In this work, we establish an explicit construction for these codewords of polar codes as a sum of the generator matrix rows, which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Mohammad Rowshan , Son Hoang Dau , Emanuele Viterbo

Linear codes with a few weights can be applied to communication, consumer electronics and data storage system. In addition, the weight hierarchy of linear codes has many applications such as on the type II wire-tap channel, dealing with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Fei Li , Xiumei Li

The weight distribution of error correction codes is a critical determinant of their error-correcting performance, making enumeration of utmost importance. In the case of polar codes, the minimum weight $\wm$ (which is equal to minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Drăgoi , Jinhong Yuan

Linear codes with few weights have applications in consumer electronics, communication, data storage system, secret sharing, authentication codes, association schemes, and strongly regular graphs. This paper first generalizes the method of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Chunming Tang , Nian Li , Yanfeng Qi , Zhengchun Zhou , Tor Helleseth

Currently known secondary construction techniques for linear codes mainly include puncturing, shortening, and extending. In this paper, we propose a novel method for the secondary construction of linear codes based on their weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dongmei Huang , Qunying Liao , Sihem Mesnager , Gaohua Tang , Haode Yan

Linear codes with few weights have significant applications in secret sharing schemes, authentication codes, association schemes, and strongly regular graphs. There are a number of methods to construct linear codes, one of which is based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yadi Wei , Jiaxin Wang , Fang-Wei Fu

The code spectrum of polar codes is crucial to the performance of polar codes. Based on the lower-triangular affine group (LTA) of decreasing monomial codes and the one-variable descendance (ovd) relation, we define a new subgroup of LTA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zhichao Liu , Zhiming Ma , Guiying Yan

Polar codes form a very powerful family of codes with a low complexity decoding algorithm that attain many information theoretic limits in error correction and source coding. These codes are closely related to Reed-Muller codes because both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Magali Bardet , Vlad Dragoi , Ayoub Otmani , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Minimal linear codes have significant applications in secret sharing schemes and secure two-party computation. There are several methods to construct linear codes, one of which is based on functions over finite fields. Recently, many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Sihem Mesnager , Ahmet Sınak

For the past decades, linear codes with few weights have been widely studied, since they have applications in space communications, data storage and cryptography. In this paper, a class of binary linear codes is constructed and their weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Fei Li , Yang Yan , Qiuyan Wang , Tongjiang Yan

Polar codes are the first class of channel codes achieving the symmetric capacity of the binary-input discrete memoryless channels with efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. But the weight spectrum of Polar codes is relatively poor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yuan Li , Huazi Zhang , Rong Li , Jun Wang , Guiying Yan , Zhiming Ma

The weight spectrum plays a crucial role in the performance of error-correcting codes. Despite substantial theoretical exploration of polar codes with mother code length, a framework for the weight spectrum of rate-compatible polar codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zicheng Ye , Yuan Li , Zhichao Liu , Huazi Zhang , Jun Wang , Guiying Yan , Zhiming Ma

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

We analyze polarization-adjusted convolutional codes using the algebraic representation of polar and Reed-Muller codes. We define a large class of codes, called generalized polynomial polar codes which include PAC codes and Reverse PAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Vlad-Florin Dragoi , Mohammad Rowshan

Linear codes with few weights have applications in authentication codes, secrete sharing schemes, association schemes, consumer electronics and data storage system. In this paper, several classes of linear codes with two or three weights…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Guangkui Xu , Xiwang Cao

We introduce a formula for determining the number of codewords of weight 2 in cyclic codes and provide results related to the count of codewords with weight 3. Additionally, we establish a recursive relationship for binary cyclic codes that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 José G. Coelho , F. E. Brochero Martínez
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