On Maximal Families of Binary Polynomials with Pairwise Linear Common Factors

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Main Authors: Gadouleau, Maximilien, Mariot, Luca, Mazzone, Federico
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author Gadouleau, Maximilien
Mariot, Luca
Mazzone, Federico
author_facet Gadouleau, Maximilien
Mariot, Luca
Mazzone, Federico
contents We consider the construction of maximal families of polynomials over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, all having the same degree $n$ and a nonzero constant term, where the degree of the GCD of any two polynomials is $d$ with $1 \le d\le n$. The motivation for this problem lies in a recent construction for subspace codes based on cellular automata. More precisely, the minimum distance of such subspace codes relates to the maximum degree $d$ of the pairwise GCD in this family of polynomials. Hence, characterizing the maximal families of such polynomials is equivalent to determining the maximum cardinality of the corresponding subspace codes for a given minimum distance. We first show a lower bound on the cardinality of such families, and then focus on the specific case where $d=1$. There, we characterize the maximal families of polynomials over the binary field $\mathbb{F}_2$. Our findings prompt several more open questions, which we plan to address in an extended version of this work.
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spellingShingle On Maximal Families of Binary Polynomials with Pairwise Linear Common Factors
Gadouleau, Maximilien
Mariot, Luca
Mazzone, Federico
Discrete Mathematics
Cryptography and Security
Combinatorics
We consider the construction of maximal families of polynomials over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, all having the same degree $n$ and a nonzero constant term, where the degree of the GCD of any two polynomials is $d$ with $1 \le d\le n$. The motivation for this problem lies in a recent construction for subspace codes based on cellular automata. More precisely, the minimum distance of such subspace codes relates to the maximum degree $d$ of the pairwise GCD in this family of polynomials. Hence, characterizing the maximal families of such polynomials is equivalent to determining the maximum cardinality of the corresponding subspace codes for a given minimum distance. We first show a lower bound on the cardinality of such families, and then focus on the specific case where $d=1$. There, we characterize the maximal families of polynomials over the binary field $\mathbb{F}_2$. Our findings prompt several more open questions, which we plan to address in an extended version of this work.
title On Maximal Families of Binary Polynomials with Pairwise Linear Common Factors
topic Discrete Mathematics
Cryptography and Security
Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08741