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The error-correcting pair is a general algebraic decoding method for linear codes, which exists for many classical linear codes. Since every linear code is contained in an MDS linear code with the same minimum distance over some finite field extension, we focus our study on MDS linear codes. It is well-known that an MDS linear code with minimum distance 2 ℓ + 1 has an ℓ -error-correcting pair if and only if it is a generalized Reed-Solomon code. In this paper, we show that for an MDS linear code C with minimal distance 2 ℓ + 2 , if it has an ℓ -error-correcting pair, then the parameters of the pair are three cases. For one case, we give a necessary condition that C is a generalized Reed-Solomon code, and then give some counterexamples that C is a non-generalized Reed-Solomon code for the other two cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction of quantum maximum distance separable (abbreviated to MDS) error-correcting codes has become one of the major concerns in quantum coding theory. In this paper, we further generalize the approach developed in the previous paper, and construct several new classes of Hermitian self-orthogonal generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. By employing these classical MDS codes, we obtain several classes of quantum MDS codes with large minimum distance. It turns out that our quantum MDS codes exhibited here have less constraints on the selection of code length and some of them have not been constructed before, and in some cases, have larger minimum distance than previous literature. Meanwhile, about half of the distance parameters of our codes are greater than q 2 + 1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Traceability codes are combinatorial objects introduced by Chor, Fiat and Naor in 1994 to be used in traitor tracing schemes to protect digital content. A k-traceability code is used in a scheme to trace the origin of digital content under the assumption that no more than k users collude. It is well known that an error correcting code of high minimum distance is a traceability code. When does this ‘error correcting construction’ produce good traceability codes? The paper explores this question. Let ℓ be a fixed positive integer. When q is a sufficiently large prime power, a suitable Reed–Solomon code may be used to construct a 2-traceability code containing codewords. The paper shows that this construction is close to best possible: there exists a constant c, depending only on ℓ, such that a q-ary 2-traceability code of length ℓ contains at most codewords. This answers a question of Kabatiansky from 2005. Barg and Kabatiansky (2004) asked whether there exist families of k-traceability codes of rate bounded away from zero when q and k are constants such that . These parameters are of interest since the error correcting construction cannot be used to construct k-traceability codes of constant rate for these parameters: suitable error correcting codes do not exist when because of the Plotkin bound. Kabatiansky (2004) answered Barg and Kabatiansky''s question (positively) in the case when . This result is generalised to the following: whenever k and q are fixed integers such that and , or such that and , there exist infinite families of q-ary k-traceability codes of constant rate. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Reed-Solomon codes have gained a lot of interest due to its encoding simplicity, well structuredness and list-decoding capability [6] in the classical setting. This interest also translates to other metric setting, including the insertion and deletion (insdel for short) setting which is used to model synchronization errors caused by positional information loss in communication systems. Such interest is supported by the construction of a deletion correcting algorithm of insdel Reed-Solomon code in [22] which is based on the Guruswami-Sudan decoding algorithm [6]. Nevertheless, there have been few studies [3] on the insdel error-correcting capability of Reed-Solomon codes. In this paper, we discuss a criterion for a 2-dimensional insdel Reed-Solomon codes to have optimal asymptotic error-correcting capabilities, which are up to their respective lengths. Then we provide explicit constructions of 2-dimensional insdel Reed-Solomon codes that satisfy the established criteria. The family of such constructed codes can then be shown to extend the family of codes with asymptotic error-correcting capability reaching their respective lengths provided in [3, Theorem 2] which provide larger error-correcting capability compared to those defined in [25]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]