Infinitely many families of distance-optimal binary linear codes with respect to the sphere packing bound

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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Hao, Xie, Conghui, Ding, Cunsheng
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author Chen, Hao
Xie, Conghui
Ding, Cunsheng
author_facet Chen, Hao
Xie, Conghui
Ding, Cunsheng
contents R. W. Hamming published the Hamming codes and the sphere packing bound in 1950. In the past 75 years, infinite families of distance-optimal linear codes over finite fields with minimum distance at most 8 with respect to the sphere packing bound have been reported in the literature. However, it is a 75-year-old open problem in coding theory whether there is an infinite family of distance-optimal linear codes over finite fields with arbitrarily large minimum distance with respect to the sphere packing bound. This main objective of this paper is to settle this long-standing open problem in coding theory. As by-products, several infinite families of distance-optimal binary codes with small minimum distances are presented. Two infinite families of binary five-weight codes are reported. Some open problems are also proposed.
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spellingShingle Infinitely many families of distance-optimal binary linear codes with respect to the sphere packing bound
Chen, Hao
Xie, Conghui
Ding, Cunsheng
Information Theory
R. W. Hamming published the Hamming codes and the sphere packing bound in 1950. In the past 75 years, infinite families of distance-optimal linear codes over finite fields with minimum distance at most 8 with respect to the sphere packing bound have been reported in the literature. However, it is a 75-year-old open problem in coding theory whether there is an infinite family of distance-optimal linear codes over finite fields with arbitrarily large minimum distance with respect to the sphere packing bound. This main objective of this paper is to settle this long-standing open problem in coding theory. As by-products, several infinite families of distance-optimal binary codes with small minimum distances are presented. Two infinite families of binary five-weight codes are reported. Some open problems are also proposed.
title Infinitely many families of distance-optimal binary linear codes with respect to the sphere packing bound
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22259