Doubly and triply extended MSRD codes (Q6136720)

Extended Reed-Solomon codes are formed by extending Vandermonde matrices with additional columns. Doubly and triply extended Reed Solomon codes are Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, that is they meet the Singleton bound \(d \leq n - k + 1\), where \(n\) is the length, \(k\) is the dimension, and \(d\) is the minimum distance. The authors generalize doubly and triply extended Reed Solomon codes and characterize when a multiply extended code attains the Singleton bound for general metrics. He applies this result to produce families of doubly and triply extended Maximum Sum-Rank Distance (MSRD) codes. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the doubly-extended MSRD codes to be one-weight codes are also given.