Upper bounds on matching families in BBZ{pq}^{n}

Matching families are one of the major ingredients in the construction of locally decodable codes (LDCs) and the best known constructions of LDCs with a constant number of queries are based on matching families. The determination of the largest size of any matching family in Zmn, where Zm is the rin...

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Main Authors: Chee, Yeow Meng, Ling, San, Wang, Huaxiong, Zhang, Liang Feng
Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101267
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16778
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Matching families are one of the major ingredients in the construction of locally decodable codes (LDCs) and the best known constructions of LDCs with a constant number of queries are based on matching families. The determination of the largest size of any matching family in Zmn, where Zm is the ring of integers modulo m, is an interesting problem. In this paper, we show an upper bound of O ((pq)0.625n+0.125) for the size of any matching family in Zpqn, where p and q are two distinct primes. Our bound is valid when n is a constant, p → ∞, and p/q → 1. Our result improves an upper bound of Dvir and coworkers.