Riemann-Roch spaces of the Hermitian function field with applications to algebraic geometry codes and low-discrepancy sequences

  • Authors:
  • Hiren Maharaj;Gretchen L. Matthews;Gottlieb Pirsic

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC;Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC;Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Science, Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Pure And Applied Algebra
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with two applications of bases of Riemann-Roch spaces. In the first application, we define the floor of a divisor and obtain improved bounds on the parameters of algebraic geometry codes. These bounds apply to a larger class of codes than that of Homma and Kim (J. Pure Appl. Algebra 162 (2001) 273). Then we determine explicit bases for large classes of Riemann-Roch spaces of the Hermitian function field. These bases give better estimates on the parameters of a large class of m-point Hermitian codes. In the second application, these bases are used for fast implementation of Xing and Niederreiter's method (Acta. Arith. 72 (1995) 281) for the construction of low-discrepancy sequences.