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In this paper, we investigate geometrical properties of the rank metric space and covering properties of rank metric codes. We first establish an analytical expression for the intersection of two balls with rank radii, and then derive an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Maximilien Gadouleau , Zhiyuan Yan

In the realm of rank-metric codes, Maximum Rank Distance (MRD) codes are optimal algebraic structures attaining the Singleton-like bound. A major open problem in this field is determining whether an MRD code can be extended to a longer one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Daniele Bartoli , Alessandro Giannoni , Giuseppe Marino , Alessandro Neri

We study the problem of low-rank matrix completion for symmetric matrices. The minimum rank of a completion of a generic partially specified symmetric matrix depends only on the location of the specified entries, and not their values, if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Daniel Irving Bernstein , Grigoriy Blekherman , Kisun Lee

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

In this paper we extend the study of linear spaces of upper triangular matrices endowed with the flag-rank metric. Such metric spaces are isometric to certain spaces of degenerate flags and have been suggested as suitable framework for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Gianira N. Alfarano , Alessandro Neri , Ferdinando Zullo

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

We revisit and extend the connections between $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}$-linear rank-metric codes and evasive $\mathbb{F}_q$-subspaces of $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}^k$. We give a unifying framework in which we prove in an elementary way how the parameters…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Giuseppe Marino , Alessandro Neri , Rocco Trombetti

A subspace of matrices over $\mathbb{F}_{q^e}^{m\times n}$ can be naturally embedded as a subspace of matrices in $\mathbb{F}_q^{em\times en}$ with the property that the rank of any of its matrix is a multiple of $e$. It is quite natural to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Olga Polverino , Paolo Santonastaso , John Sheekey , Ferdinando Zullo

The study of linear codes over a finite field of odd cardinality, derived from determinantal varieties obtained from symmetric matrices of bounded rank, was initiated in a recent paper by the authors. There, one found the minimum distance…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Peter Beelen , Trygve Johnsen , Prasant Singh

We consider the decoding of rank metric codes assuming the error matrix is symmetric. We prove two results. First, for rates $<1/2$ there exists a broad family of rank metric codes for which any symmetric error pattern, even of maximal rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Alain Couvreur

For a class of integral operators with kernels metric functions on manifold we find some necessary and sufficient conditions to have finite rank. The problem we pose has a stochastic nature and boils down to the following alternative…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-24 Nikolay H. Balov

This work investigates the structure of rank-metric codes in connection with concepts from finite geometry, most notably the $q$-analogues of projective systems and blocking sets. We also illustrate how to associate a classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Gianira N. Alfarano , Martino Borello , Alessandro Neri , Alberto Ravagnani

As a result of their applications in network coding, space-time coding, and coding for criss-cross errors, matrix codes have garnered significant attention; in various contexts, these codes have also been termed rank-metric codes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Katherine Morrison

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

We initiate the rigorous study of classification in quasi-metric spaces. These are point sets endowed with a distance function that is non-negative and also satisfies the triangle inequality, but is asymmetric. We develop and refine a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Shira Ozeri

In this paper, we develop a geometric framework for matrix rank-metric codes based on generator tensors and their slice spaces. To every nondegenerate matrix rank-metric code, we associate two systems, which translate metric properties of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Gianira N. Alfarano , Martino Borello , Alessandro Neri

This paper presents encoding and decoding algorithms for several families of optimal rank metric codes whose codes are in restricted forms of symmetric, alternating and Hermitian matrices. First, we show the evaluation encoding is the right…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wrya K. Kadir , Chunlei Li , Ferdinando Zullo

Over fields of characteristic unequal to $2$, we can identify symmetric matrices with homogeneous polynomials of degree $2$. This allows us to view symmetric rank-metric codes as living inside the space of such polynomials. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Arthur Bik , Alessandro Neri

We study skew polycyclic codes over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, associated with a skew polynomial $f(x) \in \mathbb{F}_q[x;\sigma]$, where $\sigma$ is an automorphism of $\mathbb{F}_q$. We start by proving the Roos-like bound for both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hassan Ou-azzou , Anna-Lena Horlemann , Nuh Aydin

Nearly perfect packing codes are those codes that meet the Johnson upper bound on the size of error-correcting codes. This bound is an improvement to the sphere-packing bound. A related bound for covering codes is known as the van Wee…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Avital Boruchovsky , Tuvi Etzion , Ron M. Roth