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Main Authors: Pfister, Henry D., Sprumont, Oscar, Zémor, Gilles
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05748
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  • We provide a general framework for bounding the block error threshold of a linear code $C\subseteq \mathbb{F}_2^N$ over the erasure channel in terms of its bit error threshold. Our approach relies on understanding the minimum support weight of any $r$-dimensional subcode of $C$, for all small values of $r$. As a proof of concept, we use our machinery to obtain a new proof of the celebrated result that Reed-Muller codes achieve capacity on the erasure channel with respect to block error probability.