• openAccess   Asymmetric Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error-Correcting Codes and BCH Codes 

      Galindo, Carlos; Hernando, Fernando; Matsumoto, Ryutaroh; Ruano, Diego IEEE (2020-01-17)
      The concept of asymmetric entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting code (asymmetric EAQECC) is introduced in this article. Codes of this type take advantage of the asymmetry in quantum errors since phase-shift errors ...
    • closedAccess   Decoding of matrix-product codes 

      Hernando, Fernando; Ruano, Diego World Scientific Publishing Company (2013-06)
      We propose a decoding algorithm for the (u | u + v)-construction that decodes up to half of the minimum distance of the linear code. We extend this algorithm for a class of matrix-product codes in two different ways. In ...
    • openAccess   Entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes from RS codes and BCH codes with extension degree 2 

      Galindo, Carlos; Hernando, Fernando; Ruano, Diego Springer Nature (2021-05-03)
      Entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes (EAQECCs) constructed from Reed–Solomon codes and BCH codes are considered in this work. It is provided a complete and explicit formula for the parameters of EAQECCs ...
    • openAccess   Entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes over arbitrary finite fields 

      Galindo, Carlos; Hernando, Fernando; Matsumoto, Ryutaroh; Ruano, Diego Springer Verlag (2019)
      We prove that the known formulae for computing the optimal number of maximally entangled pairs required for entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes (EAQECCs) over the binary field hold for codes over arbitrary ...
    • openAccess   Improved constructions of nested code pairs 

      Galindo, Carlos; Geil, Olav; Hernando, Fernando; Ruano, Diego IEEE (2017-09)
      Two new constructions of linear code pairs C2 ⊂ C1 are given for which the codimension and the relative minimum distances M1(C1,C2), M1(C┴2 , C┴1) are good. By this we mean that for any two out of the three parameters the ...
    • openAccess   List Decoding of Matrix-Product Codes from nested codes: an application to Quasi-Cyclic codes 

      Hernando, Fernando; Hoholdt, Tom; Ruano, Diego American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (2012-01-30)
      A list decoding algorithm for matrix-product codes is provided when C1, . . . , Cs are nested linear codes and A is a non-singular by columns matrix. We estimate the probability of getting more than one codeword as output ...
    • openAccess   List decoding of repeated codes 

      Hernando, Fernando; O'Sullivan, Michael E.; Ruano, Diego Springer (2013-08)
      Assuming that we have a soft-decision list decoding algorithm of a linear code, a new hard-decision list decoding algorithm of its repeated code is proposed in this article. Although repeated codes are not used for ...
    • openAccess   New binary and ternary LCD codes 

      Galindo, Carlos; Geil, Olav; Hernando, Fernando; Ruano, Diego IEEE (2018-05-09)
      LCD codes are linear codes with important cryptographic applications. Recently, a method has been presented to transform any linear code into an LCD code with the same parameters when it is supported on a finite field ...
    • openAccess   New quantum codes from evaluation and matrix-product codes 

      Galindo, Carlos; Hernando, Fernando; Ruano, Diego Elsevier (2014-07)
      Stabilizer codes obtained via CSS code construction and Steane's enlargement of subfield-subcodes and matrix-product codes coming from generalized Reed-Muller, hyperbolic and affine variety codes are studied. Stabilizer ...
    • closedAccess   On the classification of exceptional planar functions over Fp 

      Hernando, Fernando; McGuire, Gary; Monserrat, Francisco Springer Netherlands (2014-12)
      We will present many strong partial results towards a classification of exceptional planar/PN monomial functions on finite fields. The techniques we use are the Weil bound, Bézout’s theorem, and Bertini’s theorem.
    • openAccess   On the distance of stabilizer quantum codes from J-affine variety codes 

      Galindo, Carlos; Geil, Olav; Hernando, Fernando; Ruano, Diego Springer Verlag (2017)
      Self-orthogonal J-affine variety codes have been successfully used to obtain quantum stabilizer codes with excellent parameters. In a previous paper we gave formulae for the dimension of this family of quantum codes, but ...
    • openAccess   On the generalization of the construction of quantum codes from Hermitian self-orthogonal codes 

      Galindo, Carlos; Hernando, Fernando Springer (2022-03-21)
      Many q-ary stabilizer quantum codes can be constructed from Hermitian self-orthogonal q2-ary linear codes. This result can be generalized to q2m-ary linear codes, m>1. We give a result for easily obtaining quantum codes ...
    • openAccess   Optimal (r,δ)-LRCs from monomial-Cartesian codes and their subfield-subcodes 

      Galindo, Carlos; Hernando, Fernando; Martín-Cruz, Helena Springer (2024-05-02)
      We study monomial-Cartesian codes (MCCs) which can be regarded as (r,δ)-locally recoverable codes (LRCs). These codes come with a natural bound for their minimum distance and we determine those giving rise to (r,δ)-optimal ...
    • closedAccess   Proof of a conjecture of Segre and Bartocci on monomial hyperovals in projective planes 

      Hernando, Fernando; McGuire, Gary Springer US (2012-02)
      The existence of certain monomial hyperovals D(xk) in the finite Desarguesian projective plane PG(2, q), q even, is related to the existence of points on certain projective plane curves gk(x, y, z). Segre showed that some ...
    • openAccess   Quantum codes from a new construction of self-orthogonal algebraic geometry codes 

      Hernando, Fernando; McGuire, Gary; Monserrat, Francisco; Moyano-Fernández, Julio José Springer (2020)
      We present new quantum codes with good parameters which are constructed from self-orthogonal algebraic geometry codes. Our method permits a wide class of curves to be used in the formation of these codes. These results ...
    • openAccess   Quantum codes from affine variety codes and their subfield-subcodes 

      Galindo, Carlos; Hernando, Fernando Springer (2015-07)
      We use affine variety codes and their subfield-subcodes to obtain quantum stabilizer codes via the CSS code construction. With this procedure we get codes with good parameters, some of them exceeding the CSS quantum ...
    • openAccess   Stabilizer quantum codes defined by trace-depending polynomials 

      Galindo, Carlos; Hernando, Fernando; Martín-Cruz, Helena; Ruano, Diego Elsevier (2022-12-29)
      Quantum error-correcting codes with good parameters can be constructed by evaluating polynomials at the roots of the polynomial trace [18]. In this paper, we propose to evaluate polynomials at the roots of trace-depending ...
    • openAccess   Stabilizer quantum codes from J -affine variety codes and a new Steane-like enlargement 

      Galindo, Carlos; Hernando, Fernando; Ruano, Diego Springer (2014-09)
      New stabilizer codes with parameters better than the ones available in the literature are provided in this work, in particular quantum codes with parameters [[127,63,≥12]]2 and [[63,45,≥6]]4 that are records. These codes ...
    • openAccess   Steane enlargement of entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes 

      Galindo, Carlos; Hernando, Fernando; Matsumoto, Ryutaroh Springer (2023-08-07)
      We introduce a Steane-like enlargement procedure for entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes (EAQECCs) obtained by considering Euclidean inner product. We give formulae for the parameters of these enlarged ...
    • closedAccess   The dimension of subcode-subfields of shortened generalized Reed–Solomon codes 

      Hernando, Fernando; Marshall, Kyle; O'Sullivan, Michael E. Springer US (2012-03)
      Reed–Solomon (RS) codes are among the most ubiquitous codes due to their good parameters as well as efficient encoding and decoding procedures. However, RS codes suffer from having a fixed length. In many applications where ...