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Cyclic and BCH Codes whose Minimum Distance Equals their Maximum BCH bound

Information Theory 2024-02-07 v1 math.IT

Abstract

In this paper we study the family of cyclic codes such that its minimum distance reaches the maximum of its BCH bounds. We also show a way to construct cyclic codes with that property by means of computations of some divisors of a polynomial of the form X^n-1. We apply our results to the study of those BCH codes C, with designed distance delta, that have minimum distance d(C)= delta. Finally, we present some examples of new binary BCH codes satisfying that condition. To do this, we make use of two related tools: the discrete Fourier transform and the notion of apparent distance of a code, originally defined for multivariate abelian codes.

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@article{arxiv.2402.03965,
  title  = {Cyclic and BCH Codes whose Minimum Distance Equals their Maximum BCH bound},
  author = {José Joaquín Bernal and Diana H. Bueno-Carreño and Juan Jacobo Simón},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03965},
  year   = {2024}
}
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