MDS codes with arbitrary dimensional hull and their applications

The hull of linear codes have promising utilization in coding theory and quantum coding theory. In this paper, we study the hull of generalized Reed-Solomon codes and extended generalized Reed-Solomon codes over finite fields with respect to the Euclidean inner product. Several infinite families of MDS codes with arbitrary dimensional hull are presented. As an application, using these MDS codes with arbitrary dimensional hull, we construct several new infinite families of entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes with flexible parameters.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figur

Constructions of quantum MDS codes

Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field with $q=p^{e}$ elements, where $p$ is a prime number and $e \geq 1$ is an integer. In this paper, by means of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, we construct two new classes of quantum maximum-distance-separable ( quantum MDS) codes with parameters $$[[q + 1, 2k-q-1, q-k+2]]_q$$ for $\lceil\frac{q+2}{2}\rceil \leq k\leq q+1$, and $$[[n,2k-n,n-k+1]]_q$$ for $n\leq q$ and $\lceil\frac{n}{2}\rceil \leq k\leq n$. Our constructions improve and generalize some results of available in the literature. Moreover, we give an affirmative answer to the open problem proposed by Fang et al. in \cite{Fang1}.Comment: 10 pages,2 table