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MDS self-dual codes over finite fields have attracted a lot of attention in recent years by their theoretical interests in coding theory and applications in cryptography and combinatorics. In this paper we present a series of MDS self-dual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Aixian Zhang , Keqin Feng

Surface and color codes are two forms of topological quantum error correction in two spatial dimensions with complementary properties. Surface codes have lower-depth error detection circuits and well-developed decoders to interpret and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Jonathan E. Moussa

One of the main objectives of quantum error-correction theory is to construct quantum codes with optimal parameters and properties. In this paper, we propose a class of 2-generator quasi-cyclic codes and study their applications in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chaofeng Guan , Ruihu Li , Liangdong Lu , Yang Liu , Hao Song

Gabidulin codes can be seen as the rank-metric equivalent of Reed-Solomon codes. It was recently proven, using subspace polynomials, that Gabidulin codes cannot be list decoded beyond the so-called Johnson radius. In another result, cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Netanel Raviv , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

A generalization of the Reiger bound is presented for the list decoding of burst errors. It is then shown that Reed-Solomon codes attain this bound.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-22 Ron M. Roth , Pascal O. Vontobel

We generalize the concept of folding from surface codes to CSS codes by considering certain dualities within them. In particular, this gives a general method to implement logical operations in suitable LDPC quantum codes using transversal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Nikolas P. Breuckmann , Simon Burton

Quantum synchronizable codes are quantum error correcting codes that can correct not only Pauli errors but also errors in block synchronization. The code can be constructed from two classical cyclic codes $\mathcal{C}$, $\mathcal{D}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Theerapat Tansuwannont , Andrew Nemec

Products of MDS codes are of major practical importance; for a recent example, they are used in Data Availability Sampling (DAS) in blockchain networks such as Celestia and as part of the Ethereum roadmap. This motivates us to consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Amit Berman , Yaron Shany , Itzhak Tamo

In this paper we present several classes of asymptotically good concatenated quantum codes and derive lower bounds on the minimum distance and rate of the codes. We compare these bounds with the best-known bound of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hachiro Fujita

In this paper show that the list and bounded-distance decoding problems of certain bounds for the Reed-Solomon code are at least as hard as the discrete logarithm problem over finite fields.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Qi Cheng , Daqing Wan

Distributed storage systems for large clusters typically use replication to provide reliability. Recently, erasure codes have been used to reduce the large storage overhead of three-replicated systems. Reed-Solomon codes are the standard…

Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) and Gabidulin codes have been proposed for various code-based cryptosystems, though most such schemes without elaborate disguising techniques have been successfully attacked. Both code classes are prominent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Felicitas Hörmann , Anna-Lena Horlemann

Quantum convolutional codes can be used to protect a sequence of qubits of arbitrary length against decoherence. In this paper, we give two new constructions of quantum MDS convolutional codes derived from generalized Reed-Solomon codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Baokun Ding , Tao Zhang , Gennian Ge

Guo, Kopparty and Sudan have initiated the study of error-correcting codes derived by lifting of affine-invariant codes. Lifted Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are defined as the evaluation of polynomials in a vector space over a field by requiring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Lukas Holzbaur , Rina Polyanskaya , Nikita Polyanskii , Ilya Vorobyev

The well-known approach of Bose, Ray-Chaudhuri and Hocquenghem and its generalization by Hartmann and Tzeng are lower bounds on the minimum distance of simple-root cyclic codes. We generalize these two bounds to the case of repeated-root…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Alexander Zeh , Markus Ulmschneider

Let $p$ be a prime and let $q$ be a power of $p$. In this paper, by using generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS for short) codes and extended GRS codes, we construct two new classes of quantum maximum-distance- separable (MDS) codes with parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

In modern practical data centers, storage nodes are usually organized into equally sized groups, which is called racks. The cost of cross-rack communication is much more expensive compared with the intra-rack communication cost. The codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Lingfei Jin , Gaojun Luo , Chaoping Xing

This paper focuses on Hagiwara codes, which are quantum deletion-correcting codes constructed by the quantum Reed-Solomon codes. Although Hagiwara codes can correct composite errors consisting of deletions and insertions, an efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Koki Sasaki , Ken Nakamura , Takayuki Nozaki

For codes equipped with metrics such as Hamming metric, symbol pair metric or cover metric, the Johnson bound guarantees list-decodability of such codes. That is, the Johnson bound provides a lower bound on the list-decoding radius of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shu Liu , Ivan Tjuawinata , Chaoping Xing

We prove that there is a Hermitian self-orthogonal $k$-dimensional truncated generalised Reed-Solomon code of length $n \leqslant q^2$ over ${\mathbb F}_{q^2}$ if and only if there is a polynomial $g \in {\mathbb F}_{q^2}$ of degree at most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Simeon Ball , Ricard Vilar