The intractability of computing the minimum distance of a code

  • Authors:
  • A. Vardy

  • Affiliations:
  • Coordinated Sci. Lab., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

It is shown that the problem of computing the minimum distance of a binary linear code is NP-hard, and the corresponding decision problem is NP-complete. This result constitutes a proof of the conjecture of Berlekamp, McEliece, and van Tilborg (1978). Extensions and applications of this result to other problems in coding theory are discussed