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Main Authors: Wang, Xiaoqiang, Song, Xun, Zheng, Dabin, Chen, Hao, Ding, Cunsheng
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02262
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author Wang, Xiaoqiang
Song, Xun
Zheng, Dabin
Chen, Hao
Ding, Cunsheng
author_facet Wang, Xiaoqiang
Song, Xun
Zheng, Dabin
Chen, Hao
Ding, Cunsheng
contents In spite of the intensive study of cyclic codes and the recent construction of an infinite family of self-dual binary cyclic codes whose minimum distances have the square-root bound in IEEE Trans. IT, vol. 71, no. 4, 2025, it is still a 70-year-old open problem whether there is an infinite family of self-dual binary cyclic codes whose minimum distances have a lower bound better than the square-root bound. This paper settles this long-standing open problem in coding theory by presenting infinite families of such self-dual binary cyclic codes. As by-products, several families of cyclic codes with better parameters than those in some references are also constructed in this paper.
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spellingShingle Four constructions of self-dual binary cyclic codes with a lower bound on the minimum distances better than the square-root bound
Wang, Xiaoqiang
Song, Xun
Zheng, Dabin
Chen, Hao
Ding, Cunsheng
Information Theory
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In spite of the intensive study of cyclic codes and the recent construction of an infinite family of self-dual binary cyclic codes whose minimum distances have the square-root bound in IEEE Trans. IT, vol. 71, no. 4, 2025, it is still a 70-year-old open problem whether there is an infinite family of self-dual binary cyclic codes whose minimum distances have a lower bound better than the square-root bound. This paper settles this long-standing open problem in coding theory by presenting infinite families of such self-dual binary cyclic codes. As by-products, several families of cyclic codes with better parameters than those in some references are also constructed in this paper.
title Four constructions of self-dual binary cyclic codes with a lower bound on the minimum distances better than the square-root bound
topic Information Theory
94B15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02262