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List decoding of a class of affine variety codes
Consider a polynomial in variables and a finite point ensemble . When given the leading monomial of with respect to
a lexicographic ordering we derive improved information on the possible number
of zeros of of multiplicity at least from . We then use this
information to design a list decoding algorithm for a large class of affine
variety codes.Comment: 11 pages, 5 table
Linear-algebraic list decoding of folded Reed-Solomon codes
Folded Reed-Solomon codes are an explicit family of codes that achieve the
optimal trade-off between rate and error-correction capability: specifically,
for any \eps > 0, the author and Rudra (2006,08) presented an n^{O(1/\eps)}
time algorithm to list decode appropriate folded RS codes of rate from a
fraction 1-R-\eps of errors. The algorithm is based on multivariate
polynomial interpolation and root-finding over extension fields. It was noted
by Vadhan that interpolating a linear polynomial suffices if one settles for a
smaller decoding radius (but still enough for a statement of the above form).
Here we give a simple linear-algebra based analysis of this variant that
eliminates the need for the computationally expensive root-finding step over
extension fields (and indeed any mention of extension fields). The entire list
decoding algorithm is linear-algebraic, solving one linear system for the
interpolation step, and another linear system to find a small subspace of
candidate solutions. Except for the step of pruning this subspace, the
algorithm can be implemented to run in {\em quadratic} time. The theoretical
drawback of folded RS codes are that both the decoding complexity and proven
worst-case list-size bound are n^{\Omega(1/\eps)}. By combining the above
idea with a pseudorandom subset of all polynomials as messages, we get a Monte
Carlo construction achieving a list size bound of O(1/\eps^2) which is quite
close to the existential O(1/\eps) bound (however, the decoding complexity
remains n^{\Omega(1/\eps)}). Our work highlights that constructing an
explicit {\em subspace-evasive} subset that has small intersection with
low-dimensional subspaces could lead to explicit codes with better
list-decoding guarantees.Comment: 16 pages. Extended abstract in Proc. of IEEE Conference on
Computational Complexity (CCC), 201
Lemma for Linear Feedback Shift Registers and DFTs Applied to Affine Variety Codes
In this paper, we establish a lemma in algebraic coding theory that
frequently appears in the encoding and decoding of, e.g., Reed-Solomon codes,
algebraic geometry codes, and affine variety codes. Our lemma corresponds to
the non-systematic encoding of affine variety codes, and can be stated by
giving a canonical linear map as the composition of an extension through linear
feedback shift registers from a Grobner basis and a generalized inverse
discrete Fourier transform. We clarify that our lemma yields the error-value
estimation in the fast erasure-and-error decoding of a class of dual affine
variety codes. Moreover, we show that systematic encoding corresponds to a
special case of erasure-only decoding. The lemma enables us to reduce the
computational complexity of error-evaluation from O(n^3) using Gaussian
elimination to O(qn^2) with some mild conditions on n and q, where n is the
code length and q is the finite-field size.Comment: 37 pages, 1 column, 10 figures, 2 tables, resubmitted to IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory on Jan. 8, 201
Decoding of Projective Reed-Muller Codes by Dividing a Projective Space into Affine Spaces
A projective Reed-Muller (PRM) code, obtained by modifying a (classical)
Reed-Muller code with respect to a projective space, is a doubly extended
Reed-Solomon code when the dimension of the related projective space is equal
to 1. The minimum distance and dual code of a PRM code are known, and some
decoding examples have been represented for low-dimensional projective space.
In this study, we construct a decoding algorithm for all PRM codes by dividing
a projective space into a union of affine spaces. In addition, we determine the
computational complexity and the number of errors correctable of our algorithm.
Finally, we compare the codeword error rate of our algorithm with that of
minimum distance decoding.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure
Feng-Rao decoding of primary codes
We show that the Feng-Rao bound for dual codes and a similar bound by
Andersen and Geil [H.E. Andersen and O. Geil, Evaluation codes from order
domain theory, Finite Fields Appl., 14 (2008), pp. 92-123] for primary codes
are consequences of each other. This implies that the Feng-Rao decoding
algorithm can be applied to decode primary codes up to half their designed
minimum distance. The technique applies to any linear code for which
information on well-behaving pairs is available. Consequently we are able to
decode efficiently a large class of codes for which no non-trivial decoding
algorithm was previously known. Among those are important families of
multivariate polynomial codes. Matsumoto and Miura in [R. Matsumoto and S.
Miura, On the Feng-Rao bound for the L-construction of algebraic geometry
codes, IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, E83-A (2000), pp. 926-930] (See also [P.
Beelen and T. H{\o}holdt, The decoding of algebraic geometry codes, in Advances
in algebraic geometry codes, pp. 49-98]) derived from the Feng-Rao bound a
bound for primary one-point algebraic geometric codes and showed how to decode
up to what is guaranteed by their bound. The exposition by Matsumoto and Miura
requires the use of differentials which was not needed in [Andersen and Geil
2008]. Nevertheless we demonstrate a very strong connection between Matsumoto
and Miura's bound and Andersen and Geil's bound when applied to primary
one-point algebraic geometric codes.Comment: elsarticle.cls, 23 pages, no figure. Version 3 added citations to the
works by I.M. Duursma and R. Pellikaa
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