Linear representations of finite geometries and associated LDPC codes

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Abstract: The {it linear representation} of a subset of a finite projective space is an incidence system of affine points and lines determined by the subset. In this paper we use character theory to show that the rank of the incidence matrix has a direct geometric interpretation in terms of certain hyperplanes. We consider the LDPC codes defined by taking the incidence matrix and its transpose as parity-check matrices, and in the former case prove a conjecture of Vandendriessche that the code is generated by words of minimum weight called plane words. In the latter case we compute the minimum weight in several cases and provide explicit constructions of minimum weight codewords.


Low density parity check (LDPC) codes are codes where the parity check matrix has few non-zero entries. These codes have been shown to be extremely important in coding theory due to the fact that they can often have maximal and near maximal minimum weights. The incidence system of affine points and lines in a subset of a finite projective space is a linear representation. The rank of this incidence matrix is shown to have a direct geometric interpretation in terms of hyperplanes. The authors construct LDPC codes using both the incidence matrix and its transpose as parity check matrices. They prove a conjecture of Vandendriessche, that using the incidence matrix as the parity check matrix, the code is generated by vectors of minimum weight. Using the transpose as the parity check matrix, they compute the minimum weight in some cases and give explicit constructions of minimum weight vectors.











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