Small weight codewords in LDPC codes defined by (dual) classical generalized quadrangles

  • Authors:
  • Jon-Lark Kim;Keith E. Mellinger;Leo Storme

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA 40292;Department of Mathematics, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, USA 22401;Department of Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium 9000

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We find lower bounds on the minimum distance and characterize codewords of small weight in low-density parity check (LDPC) codes defined by (dual) classical generalized quadrangles. We analyze the geometry of the non-singular parabolic quadric in PG(4,q) to find information about the LDPC codes defined by Q (4,q), $${\mathcal{W}(q)}$$ and $${\mathcal{H}(3,q^{2})}$$ . For $${\mathcal{W}(q)}$$ , and $${\mathcal{H}(3,q^{2})}$$ , we are able to describe small weight codewords geometrically. For $${\mathcal{Q}(4,q)}$$ , q odd, and for $${\mathcal{H}(4,q^{2})^{D}}$$ , we improve the best known lower bounds on the minimum distance, again only using geometric arguments. Similar results are also presented for the LDPC codes LU(3,q) given in [Kim, (2004) IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 50: 2378---2388]