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Felice Manganiello

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arXiv2026

Exact Cardinality And Nonredundant Parametrization Of Character-Polynomial Codes

Character-polynomial codes are constructed by evaluating finite field polynomials and mapping the results to complex roots of unity through additive characters. This paper shows that, over extension fields, the original polynomial family may contain redundancies: distinct polynomials can generate the same codeword. We identify the source of this non-injectivity through the trace map and cyclotomic cosets, determine the exact code cardinality, and construct a refined polynomial family that parametrizes the code without redundancy. These results give corrected parameters for CP codes and clarify their algebraic structure.

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arXiv2025

CSS-T Codes from Reed Muller Codes

CSS-T codes are a class of stabilizer codes introduced by Rengaswamy \emph{et al} with desired properties for quantum fault-tolerance. In this work, we comprehensively study non-degenerate CSS-T codes built from Reed-Muller codes. These classical codes allow for constructing CSS-T code families with nonvanishing asymptotic rates up to $\frac{1}2$ and possibly diverging minimum distance when non-degenerate.

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arXiv2022

Root of Unity for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication: Grid Partition Case

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM), where a user has two matrices and wishes to compute their product with the help of $N$ honest but curious servers under the security constraint that any information about either $A$ or $B$ is not leaked to any server. This paper presents a \emph{new scheme} that considers a grid product partition for matrices $A$ and $B$, which achieves an upload cost significantly lower than the existing results in the literature. Since the grid partition is a general partition that incorporates the inner and outer ones, it turns out that the communication load of the proposed scheme matches the best-known protocols for those extreme cases.

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arXiv2020

Batch Codes from Affine Cartesian Codes and Quotient Spaces

Affine Cartesian codes are defined by evaluating multivariate polynomials at a cartesian product of finite subsets of a finite field. In this work we examine properties of these codes as batch codes. We consider the recovery sets to be defined by points aligned on a specific direction and the buckets to be derived from cosets of a subspace of the ambient space of the evaluation points. We are able to prove that under these conditions, an affine Cartesian code is able to satisfy a query of size up to one more than the dimension of the space of the ambient space.

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arXiv2018

Matroidal Root Structure of Skew Polynomials over Finite Fields

A skew polynomial ring $R=K[x;σ,δ]$ is a ring of polynomials with non-commutative multiplication. This creates a difference between left and right divisibility, and thus a concept of left and right evaluations and roots. A polynomial in such a ring may have more roots than its degree, which leads to the concepts of closures and independent sets of roots. There is also a structure of conjugacy classes on the roots. In $R=F_{q^m}[x,σ]$, this leads to matroids of right independent and left independent sets. These matroids are isomorphic via the extension of the map $ϕ:[1]\to[1]$ defined by $ϕ(a)=a^{\frac{q^{i-1}-1}{q-1}}$. Additionally, extending the field of coefficients of $R$ results in a new skew polynomial ring $S$ of which $R$ is a subring, and if the extension is taken to include roots of an evaluation polynomial of $f(x)$ (which does not depend on which side roots are being considered on), then all roots of $f(x)$ in $S$ are in the same conjugacy class.

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arXiv2018

Multicast Triangular Semilattice Network

We investigate the structure of the code graph of a multicast network that has a characteristic shape of an inverted equilateral triangle. We provide a criterion that determines the validity of a receiver placement within the code graph, present invariance properties of the determinants corresponding to receiver placements under symmetries, and provide a complete study of these networks' receivers and required field sizes up to a network of 4 sources. We also improve on various definitions related to code graphs.

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arXiv2018

Affine Cartesian codes with complementary duals

A linear code $C$ with the property that $C \cap C^{\perp} = \{0 \}$ is said to be a linear complementary dual, or LCD, code. In this paper, we consider generalized affine Cartesian codes which are LCD. Generalized affine Cartesian codes arise naturally as the duals of affine Cartesian codes in the same way that generalized Reed-Solomon codes arise as duals of Reed-Solomon codes. Generalized affine Cartesian codes are evaluation codes constructed by evaluating multivariate polynomials of bounded degree at points in $m$-dimensional Cartesian set over a finite field $K$ and scaling the coordinates. The LCD property depends on the scalars used. Because Reed-Solomon codes are a special case, we obtain a characterization of those generalized Reed-Solomon codes which are LCD along with the more general result for generalized affine Cartesian codes.

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arXiv2017

Batch Codes from Hamming and Reed-Müller Codes

Batch codes, introduced by Ishai et al. encode a string $x \in Σ^{k}$ into an $m$-tuple of strings, called buckets. In this paper we consider multiset batch codes wherein a set of $t$-users wish to access one bit of information each from the original string. We introduce a concept of optimal batch codes. We first show that binary Hamming codes are optimal batch codes. The main body of this work provides batch properties of Reed-Müller codes. We look at locality and availability properties of first order Reed-Müller codes over any finite field. We then show that binary first order Reed-Müller codes are optimal batch codes when the number of users is 4 and generalize our study to the family of binary Reed-Müller codes which have order less than half their length.

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arXiv2017

Representations of the Multicast Network Problem

We approach the problem of linear network coding for multicast networks from different perspectives. We introduce the notion of the coding points of a network, which are edges of the network where messages combine and coding occurs. We give an integer linear program that leads to choices of paths through the network that minimize the number of coding points. We introduce the code graph of a network, a simplified directed graph that maintains the information essential to understanding the coding properties of the network. One of the main problems in network coding is to understand when the capacity of a multicast network is achieved with linear network coding over a finite field of size q. We explain how this problem can be interpreted in terms of rational points on certain algebraic varieties.

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arXiv2016

Matroidal Structure of Skew Polynomial Rings with Application to Network Coding

Over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}$, the evaluation of skew polynomials is intimately related to the evaluation of linearized polynomials. This connection allows one to relate the concept of polynomial independence defined for skew polynomials to the familiar concept of linear independence for vector spaces. This relation allows for the definition of a representable matroid called the $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}[x;σ]$-matroid, with rank function that makes it a metric space. Specific submatroids of this matroid are individually bijectively isometric to the projective geometry of $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}$ equipped with the subspace metric. This isometry allows one to use the $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}[x;σ]$-matroid in a matroidal network coding application.

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arXiv2016

Codes for distributed storage from 3-regular graphs

This paper considers distributed storage systems (DSSs) from a graph theoretic perspective. A DSS is constructed by means of the path decomposition of a 3- regular graph into P4 paths. The paths represent the disks of the DSS and the edges of the graph act as the blocks of storage. We deduce the properties of the DSS from a related graph and show their optimality.

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arXiv2012

Spread Decoding in Extension Fields

A spread code is a set of vector spaces of a fixed dimension over a finite field Fq with certain properties used for random network coding. It can be constructed in different ways which lead to different decoding algorithms. In this work we present a new representation of spread codes with a minimum distance decoding algorithm which is efficient when the codewords, the received space and the error space have small dimension.

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arXiv2012

An Algebraic Approach for Decoding Spread Codes

In this paper we study spread codes: a family of constant-dimension codes for random linear network coding. In other words, the codewords are full-rank matrices of size (k x n) with entries in a finite field F_q. Spread codes are a family of optimal codes with maximal minimum distance. We give a minimum-distance decoding algorithm which requires O((n-k)k^3) operations over an extension field F_{q^k}. Our algorithm is more efficient than the previous ones in the literature, when the dimension k of the codewords is small with respect to n. The decoding algorithm takes advantage of the algebraic structure of the code, and it uses original results on minors of a matrix and on the factorization of polynomials over finite fields.

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arXiv2011

Cyclic Orbit Codes

In network coding a constant dimension code consists of a set of k-dimensional subspaces of F_q^n. Orbit codes are constant dimension codes which are defined as orbits of a subgroup of the general linear group, acting on the set of all subspaces of F_q^n. If the acting group is cyclic, the corresponding orbit codes are called cyclic orbit codes. In this paper we give a classification of cyclic orbit codes and propose a decoding procedure for a particular subclass of cyclic orbit codes.

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arXiv2011

On conjugacy classes of subgroups of the general linear group and cyclic orbit codes

Orbit codes are a family of codes employable for communications on a random linear network coding channel. The paper focuses on the classification of these codes. We start by classifying the conjugacy classes of cyclic subgroups of the general linear group. As a result, we are able to focus the study of cyclic orbit codes to a restricted family of them.

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arXiv2008

Spread Codes and Spread Decoding in Network Coding

In this paper we introduce the class of Spread Codes for the use in random network coding. Spread Codes are based on the construction of spreads in finite projective geometry. The major contribution of the paper is an efficient decoding algorithm of spread codes up to half the minimum distance.

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arXiv2006

Computation of the Weight Distribution of CRC Codes

In this article, we illustrate an algorithm for the computation of the weight distribution of CRC codes. The recursive structure of CRC codes will give us an iterative way to compute the weight distribution of their dual codes starting from just some ``representative'' words. Thanks to MacWilliams Theorem, the computation of the weight distribution of dual codes can be easily brought back to that of CRC codes. This algorithm is a good alternative to the standard algorithm that involves listing every word of the code.

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