An improvement of the Feng--Rao bound on minimum distance

  • Authors:
  • Gary Salazar;Diana Dunn;Sarah B. Graham

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212-7200, USA;Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4137, USA;Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0975, USA

  • Venue:
  • Finite Fields and Their Applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a lower bound for the minimum distance of certain affine variety codes which is better than the Feng-Rao bound. We also introduce a minimum distance estimate which, at times, can serve as a lower bound as well.