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Generalizing Bounds on the Minimum Distance of Cyclic Codes Using Cyclic Product Codes

Information Theory 2013-06-28 v2 math.IT

Abstract

Two generalizations of the Hartmann--Tzeng (HT) bound on the minimum distance of q-ary cyclic codes are proposed. The first one is proven by embedding the given cyclic code into a cyclic product code. Furthermore, we show that unique decoding up to this bound is always possible and outline a quadratic-time syndrome-based error decoding algorithm. The second bound is stronger and the proof is more involved. Our technique of embedding the code into a cyclic product code can be applied to other bounds, too and therefore generalizes them.

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@article{arxiv.1301.6231,
  title  = {Generalizing Bounds on the Minimum Distance of Cyclic Codes Using Cyclic Product Codes},
  author = {Alexander Zeh and Antonia Wachter-Zeh and Maximilien Gadouleau and Sergey Bezzateev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.6231},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figure, accepted for ISIT2013

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