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We provide an algebraic description for sum-rank metric codes, as quotient space of a skew polynomial ring. This approach generalizes at the same time the skew group algebra setting for rank-metric codes and the polynomial setting for codes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Alessandro Neri

In this paper, we propose and study $r$-minimal codes, a natural extension of minimal codes which have been extensively studied with respect to Hamming metric, rank metric and sum-rank metric. We first propose $r$-minimal codes in a general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yang Xu , Haibin Kan , Guangyue Han

In this paper we study properties and invariants of matrix codes endowed with the rank metric, and relate them to the covering radius. We introduce new tools for the analysis of rank-metric codes, such as puncturing and shortening…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Eimear Byrne , Alberto Ravagnani

We consider linear codes over some fixed finite field extension over an arbitrary finite field. Gabidulin introduced rank metric codes, by endowing linear codes over the extension field with a rank weight over the base field and studied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-01 Jérôme Ducoat

We study the Hermitian hull-variation problem for vector rank-metric codes. Except for one parameter pair, we show that the Hermitian hull dimension of such a code can be reduced to any smaller value within its equivalence class, and in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Duy Ho

We study properties of rank metric and codes in rank metric over finite fields. We show that in rank metric perfect codes do not exist. We derive an existence bound that is the equivalent of the Gilbert--Varshamov bound in Hamming metric.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-07-13 P. Loidreau

We present the theory of linear rank-metric codes from the point of view of their fundamental parameters. These are: the minimum rank distance, the rank distribution, the maximum rank, the covering radius, and the field size. The focus of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Anina Gruica , Altan B. Kilic , 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

(Partial) Unit Memory ((P)UM) codes provide a powerful possibility to construct convolutional codes based on block codes in order to achieve a high decoding performance. In this contribution, a construction based on Gabidulin codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Antonia Wachter , Vladimir Sidorenko , Martin Bossert , Victor Zyablov

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

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

In this work we will present algorithms for decoding rank metric codes. First we will look at a new decoding algorithm for Gabidulin codes using the property of Dickson matrices corresponding to linearized polynomials. We will be using a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Tovohery Hajatiana Randrianarisoa

This paper investigates the relationship between the rank weight distribution of a linear code and that of its dual code. The main result of this paper is that, similar to the MacWilliams identity for the Hamming metric, the rank weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maximilien Gadouleau , Zhiyuan Yan

Sum-rank metric codes, as a generalization of Hamming codes and rank metric codes, have important applications in fields such as multi-shot linear network coding, space-time coding and distributed storage systems. The purpose of this study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xuemei Liu , Jiarong Zhang , Gang Wang

Intersecting codes are a classical object in coding theory whose rank-metric analogue has recently been introduced. Although the definition formally parallels the Hamming-metric case, the structure and parameter constraints of rank-metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Martino Borello , Olga Polverino , Ferdinando Zullo

Bargmann invariants, a class of gauge-invariant quantities arising from the overlaps of quantum state vectors, provide a profound and unifying framework for understanding the geometric structure of quantum mechanics. This survey offers a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Lin Zhang , Bing Xie

We consider a class of linear codes associated to projective algebraic varieties defined by the vanishing of minors of a fixed size of a generic matrix. It is seen that the resulting code has only a small number of distinct weights. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Peter Beelen , Sudhir R. Ghorpade , Sartaj Ul Hasan

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

In this work we develop a geometric approach to the study of rank metric codes. Using this method, we introduce a simpler definition for generalized rank weight of linear codes. We give a complete classification of constant rank weight code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Tovohery Hajatiana Randrianarisoa

In the recent years, the notion of rank metric in the context of coding theory has known many interesting developments in terms of applications such as space time coding, network coding or public key cryptography. These applications raised…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Alain Couvreur , Thomas Debris-Alazard , Philippe Gaborit