Improved spectral bound for quasi-cyclic codes

Spectral bounds form a powerful tool to estimate the minimum distances of quasi-cyclic codes. They generalize the defining set bounds of cyclic codes to those of quasi-cyclic codes. Based on the eigenvalues of quasi-cyclic codes and the corresponding eigenspaces, we provide an improved spectral boun...

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Main Authors: Luo, Gaojun, Ezerman, Martianus Frederic, Ling, San, Özkaya, Buket
Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174996
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Spectral bounds form a powerful tool to estimate the minimum distances of quasi-cyclic codes. They generalize the defining set bounds of cyclic codes to those of quasi-cyclic codes. Based on the eigenvalues of quasi-cyclic codes and the corresponding eigenspaces, we provide an improved spectral bound for quasi-cyclic codes. Numerical results verify that the improved bound outperforms the Jensen bound in almost all cases. Based on the improved bound, we propose a general construction of quasi-cyclic codes with excellent designed minimum distances. For the quasi-cyclic codes produced by this general construction, the improved spectral bound is always sharper than the Jensen bound.