$t$-Fold $s$-Blocking Sets and $s$-Minimal Codes

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Main Authors: Chen, Hao, Pan, Xu, Xie, Conghui
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author Chen, Hao
Pan, Xu
Xie, Conghui
author_facet Chen, Hao
Pan, Xu
Xie, Conghui
contents Blocking sets and minimal codes have been studied for many years in projective geometry and coding theory. In this paper, we provide a new lower bound on the size of $t$-fold $s$-blocking sets without the condition $t \leq q$, which is stronger than the classical result of Beutelspacher in 1983. Then a lower bound on lengths of projective $s$-minimal codes is also obtained. It is proved that $(s+1)$-minimal codes are certainly $s$-minimal codes. We generalize the Ashikhmin-Barg condition for minimal codes to $s$-minimal codes. Many infinite families of $s$-minimal codes satisfying and violating this generalized Ashikhmin-Barg condition are constructed. We also give several examples which are binary minimal codes, but not $2$-minimal codes.
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spellingShingle $t$-Fold $s$-Blocking Sets and $s$-Minimal Codes
Chen, Hao
Pan, Xu
Xie, Conghui
Information Theory
Blocking sets and minimal codes have been studied for many years in projective geometry and coding theory. In this paper, we provide a new lower bound on the size of $t$-fold $s$-blocking sets without the condition $t \leq q$, which is stronger than the classical result of Beutelspacher in 1983. Then a lower bound on lengths of projective $s$-minimal codes is also obtained. It is proved that $(s+1)$-minimal codes are certainly $s$-minimal codes. We generalize the Ashikhmin-Barg condition for minimal codes to $s$-minimal codes. Many infinite families of $s$-minimal codes satisfying and violating this generalized Ashikhmin-Barg condition are constructed. We also give several examples which are binary minimal codes, but not $2$-minimal codes.
title $t$-Fold $s$-Blocking Sets and $s$-Minimal Codes
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09457