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A Refinement of Expurgation

Information Theory 2024-04-22 v3 math.IT

Abstract

We show that for a wide range of channels and code ensembles with pairwise-independent codewords, with probability tending to 1 with the code length, expurgating an arbitrarily small fraction of codewords from a randomly selected code results in a code attaining the expurgated exponent.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2307.12162,
  title  = {A Refinement of Expurgation},
  author = {Giuseppe Cocco and Albert Guillén i Fàbregas and Josep Font-Segura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12162},
  year   = {2024}
}
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