Bounds for the l₁-distance of q-ary lattices obtained via constructions D, D' and D

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Abstract: Lattices have been used in several problems in coding theory and cryptography. In this paper we approach q-ary lattices obtained via Constructions D, D′ and overlineD. It is shown connections between Constructions D and D′. Bounds for the minimum l1-distance of lattices LambdaD, LambdaD′ and LambdaoverlineD and, under certain conditions, a generator matrix for LambdaD′ are presented. In addition, when the chain of codes used is closed under the zero-one addition, we derive explicit expressions for the minimum l1-distances of the lattices LambdaD and LambdaoverlineD attached to the distances of the codes used in these constructions.


A lattice is a discrete additive subgroup of \(n\) dimensional Euclidean space. The \(l_1\)-distance between two elements \(\mathbf{x}\) and \(\mathbf{y}\) in \(n\) dimensional Euclidean space is defined as \(d^1(\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}) = \sum | x_i - y_i| .\) The authors investigate three constructions, \(D\), \(D'\) and \(\overline{D}\), of lattices involving nested linear codes in \(\mathbf{Z}_q^n\). They give bounds for the minimum \(l_1\)-distance of lattices formed from these constructions. Given that the chain of codes is closed under zero-one addition, they give explicit expressions for the minimum \(l_1\)-distance of the lattices formed in constructions \(D\) and \(\overline{D}\) involving the distances of the codes used to construct the lattices.











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