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Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes are prominent polynomial codes over finite fields, renowned for achieving list decoding capacity. These codes have found a wide range of applications beyond the traditional scope…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 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

An important code of length $n^2$ is obtained by taking centralizer of a square matrix over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. Twisted centralizer codes, twisted by an element $a \in \mathbb{F}_q$, are also similar type of codes but different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Joydeb Pal , Pramod Kumar Maurya , Shyambhu Mukherjee , Satya Bagchi

In coding theory, a common question is to understand the threshold rates of various local properties of codes, such as their list decodability and list recoverability. A recent work Levi, Mosheiff, and Shagrithaya (FOCS 2025) gave a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Joshua Brakensiek , Yeyuan Chen , Manik Dhar , Zihan Zhang

In this paper, a link between polymatroid theory and locally repairable codes (LRCs) is established. The codes considered here are completely general in that they are subsets of $A^n$, where $A$ is an arbitrary finite set. Three classes of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

The system of tensor equations (TEs) has received much considerable attention in the recent literature. In this paper, we consider a class of generalized tensor equations (GTEs). An important difference between GTEs and TEs is that GTEs can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Weijie Yan , Chen Ling , Liyun Ling , Hongjin He

We consider the weight distributions of the cosets of weight 2 of the generalized $[q+1,q+2-d,d]_q$ doubly extended Reed-Solomon codes (GDRS) of minimum distance $d\ge5$, over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ with $q$ elements. For a GDRS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Alexander A. Davydov , Stefano Marcugini , Fernanda Pambianco

Lifted Reed Solomon Codes (Guo, Kopparty, Sudan 2013) were introduced in the context of locally correctable and testable codes. They are multivariate polynomials whose restriction to any line is a codeword of a Reed-Solomon code. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Ray Li , Mary Wootters

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 (FRS) codes are variants of Reed-Solomon codes, known for their optimal list decoding radius. We show explicit FRS codes with rate $R$ that can be list decoded up to radius $1-R-\epsilon$ with lists of size…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Shashank Srivastava

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes and near MDS (NMDS) codes are of particular interest in coding theory due to their optimal error-correcting capabilities and wide applications in communication, cryptography, and storage systems. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yang Li , Zhenliang Lu , San Ling , Kwok-Yan Lam

In this paper, we produce new classes of MDS self-dual codes via (extended) generalized Reed-Solomon codes over finite fields of odd characteristic. Among our constructions, there are many MDS self-dual codes with new parameters which have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xiaolei Fang , Khawla Lebed , Hongwei Liu , Jinquan Luo

Quantum maximum-distance-separable (MDS for short) codes are an important class of quantum codes. In this paper, by using Hermitian self-orthogonal generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS for short) codes, we construct five new classes of $q$-ary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ruhao Wan , Shixin Zhu

Sum-rank-metric codes have wide applications in universal error correction, multishot network coding, space-time coding and the construction of partial-MDS codes for repair in distributed storage. Fundamental properties of sum-rank-metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hao Chen

We introduce Generalized Skew Multivariate Goppa codes relying on the theory of multivariate Ore polynomials. These codes contain, as a particular case, the Generalized Skew Goppa codes. By providing a new parity check matrix for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Elena Berardini , Pranav Trivedi

We study linear codes that maximize minimum distance subject to arbitrary support constraints on the parity-check matrix. Such constraints arise naturally in the design of LDPC codes, locally repairable codes, and hardware-constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Barron Han , Hikmet Yildiz , Babak Hassibi

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

Both linear complementary dual (LCD) codes and maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have good algebraic structures, and they have interesting practical applications such as communication systems, data storage, quantum codes, and so on. So…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Yansheng Wu , Jong Yoon Hyun , Yoonjin Lee

The standard paradigm of cosmology assumes General Relativity (GR) is a valid theory for gravity at scales in which it has not been properly tested. Developing novel tests of GR and its alternatives is crucial if we want to give strength to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-22 Claudio Llinares

The constraint complexity of a graphical realization of a linear code is the maximum dimension of the local constraint codes in the realization. The treewidth of a linear code is the least constraint complexity of any of its cycle-free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Navin Kashyap , Andrew Thangaraj