Affine cartesian codes

  • Authors:
  • Hiram H. López;Carlos Rentería-Márquez;Rafael H. Villarreal

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemáticas, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico, Mexico 07000;Departamento de Matemáticas, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, Mexico 07300;Departamento de Matemáticas, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico, Mexico 07000

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

We compute the basic parameters (dimension, length, minimum distance) of affine evaluation codes defined on a cartesian product of finite sets. Given a sequence of positive integers, we construct an evaluation code, over a degenerate torus, with prescribed parameters of a certain type. As an application of our results, we recover the formulas for the minimum distance of various families of evaluation codes.