32 research outputs found
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Extendability of Ternary Linear Codes
We give the necessary and sufficient conditions for the extendability
of ternary linear codes of dimension k ≥ 5 with minimum distance
d ≡ 1 or 2 (mod 3) from a geometrical point of view
Partial spreads and vector space partitions
Constant-dimension codes with the maximum possible minimum distance have been
studied under the name of partial spreads in Finite Geometry for several
decades. Not surprisingly, for this subclass typically the sharpest bounds on
the maximal code size are known. The seminal works of Beutelspacher and Drake
\& Freeman on partial spreads date back to 1975, and 1979, respectively. From
then until recently, there was almost no progress besides some computer-based
constructions and classifications. It turns out that vector space partitions
provide the appropriate theoretical framework and can be used to improve the
long-standing bounds in quite a few cases. Here, we provide a historic account
on partial spreads and an interpretation of the classical results from a modern
perspective. To this end, we introduce all required methods from the theory of
vector space partitions and Finite Geometry in a tutorial style. We guide the
reader to the current frontiers of research in that field, including a detailed
description of the recent improvements.Comment: 30 pages, 1 tabl
LIPIcs, Volume 258, SoCG 2023, Complete Volume
LIPIcs, Volume 258, SoCG 2023, Complete Volum
Optimal Phase Transitions in Compressed Sensing
Compressed sensing deals with efficient recovery of analog signals from
linear encodings. This paper presents a statistical study of compressed sensing
by modeling the input signal as an i.i.d. process with known distribution.
Three classes of encoders are considered, namely optimal nonlinear, optimal
linear and random linear encoders. Focusing on optimal decoders, we investigate
the fundamental tradeoff between measurement rate and reconstruction fidelity
gauged by error probability and noise sensitivity in the absence and presence
of measurement noise, respectively. The optimal phase transition threshold is
determined as a functional of the input distribution and compared to suboptimal
thresholds achieved by popular reconstruction algorithms. In particular, we
show that Gaussian sensing matrices incur no penalty on the phase transition
threshold with respect to optimal nonlinear encoding. Our results also provide
a rigorous justification of previous results based on replica heuristics in the
weak-noise regime.Comment: to appear in IEEE Transactions of Information Theor