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For the discrete memoryless sources with a countably infinite alphabet, we prove that for any positive integer $k$, there exists a corresponding probability interval such that if the largest symbol probability $p_{1}$ falls in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongyang Liu , Wei Yan

The determination of the maximal length of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes arising from elliptic curves is a central problem in coding theory. For an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$, let $\operatorname{MEC}(k,q)$ denote the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haojie Chen , Chuangqiang Hu , Junjie Huang , Chang-An Zhao

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

A private compression design problem is studied, where an encoder observes useful data $Y$, wishes to compress it using variable length code and communicates it through an unsecured channel. Since $Y$ is correlated with private data $X$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Let $\mathscr{S}_n(q)$ denote the set of symmetric bilinear forms over an $n$-dimensional $\mathbb{F}_q$-vector space. A subset $\mathcal{C}$ of $\mathscr{S}_n(q)$ is called a $d$-code if the rank of $A-B$ is larger than or equal to $d$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Wei Tang , Yue Zhou

Mixed codes, which are error-correcting codes in the Cartesian product of different-sized spaces, model degrading storage systems well. While such codes have previously been studied for their algebraic properties (e.g., existence of perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Haider Al Kim , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Neural codes serve as a language for neurons in the brain. Convex codes, which arise from the pattern of intersections of convex sets in Euclidean space, are of particular relevance to neuroscience. Not every code is convex, however, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Joshua Cruz , Chad Giusti , Vladimir Itskov , Bill Kronholm

It is well known that constructing codes with good parameters is one of the most important and fundamental problems in coding theory. Though a great many of good codes have been produced, most of them are defined over alphabets of sizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Lingfei Jin , Liming Ma , Chaoping Xing

In a {\em locally recoverable} or {\em repairable} code, any symbol of a codeword can be recovered by reading only a small (constant) number of other symbols. The notion of local recoverability is important in the area of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Viveck Cadambe , Arya Mazumdar

A $q$-ary $(n,k,r)$ locally repairable code (LRC) is an $[n,k,d]$ linear code over $\mathbb{F}_q$ such that every code symbol can be recovered by accessing at most $r$ other code symbols. The well-known Singleton-like bound says that $d \le…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Jie Hao , Shu-Tao Xia , Kenneth W. Shum , Bin Chen , Fang-Wei Fu , Yi-Xian Yang

Let $A(n,d,w)$ be the largest possible size of an $(n,d,w)$ constant-weight binary code. By adding new constraints to Delsarte linear programming, we obtain twenty three new upper bounds on $A(n,d,w)$ for $n \leq 28$. The used techniques…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-26 Byung Gyun Kang , Hyun Kwang Kim , Phan Thanh Toan

Let $C$ be a linear code of length $n$ and dimension $k$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}$. The trace code $\mathrm{Tr}(C)$ is a linear code of the same length $n$ over the subfield $\mathbb{F}_q$. The obvious upper bound for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Márton Erdélyi , Pál Hegedüs , Sándor Z. Kiss , Gábor P. Nagy

A covering code is a set of codewords with the property that the union of balls, suitably defined, around these codewords covers an entire space. Generally, the goal is to find the covering code with the minimum size codebook. While most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Andreas Lenz , Cyrus Rashtchian , Paul H. Siegel , Eitan Yaakobi

We consider the problem of describing the typical (possibly) non-linear code of minimum distance bounded from below over a large alphabet. We concentrate on block codes with the Hamming metric and on subspace codes with the injection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Anina Gruica , Alberto Ravagnani

A q-ary linear code of dimension k is called a maximum weight spectrum (MWS) code if it has the maximum possible number (viz. (q^k-1)/(q-1)) of different non-zero weights. We construct MWS codes from quasi-minimal codes, thus obtaining of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Gerard D Cohen , Ludo Tolhuizen

We consider the problem of finding $A_2(n,\{d_1,d_2\})$ defined as the maximal size of a binary (non-linear) code of length $n$ with two distances $d_1$ and $d_2$. Binary codes with distances $d$ and $d+2$ of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Ivan Landjev , Konstantin Vorob'ev

We introduce a new analysis technique to derive a single-letter upper bound on the mismatch capacity of a stationary, single-user, memoryless channel with a decoding metric $q$. Our bound is obtained by considering a multicast transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

This paper extends the foundational work of Dollma \emph{et al}. on codes for ordered composite DNA sequences. We consider the general setting with an alphabet of size $q$ and a resolution parameter $k$, moving beyond the binary ($q=2$)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zuo Ye , Yuling Li , Zhaojun Lan , Gennian Ge

We derive theoretical upper and lower bounds on the maximum size of DNA codes of length n with constant GC-content w and minimum Hamming distance d, both with and without the additional constraint that the minimum Hamming distance between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oliver D. King

Minimal codewords have applications in decoding linear codes and in cryptography. We study the maximum number of minimal codewords in binary linear codes of a given length and dimension. Improved lower and upper bounds on the maximum number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Romar dela Cruz , Sascha Kurz