Hard Problems of Algebraic Geometry Codes

DOI10.1109/TIT.2007.911213zbMATH Open1308.94113OpenAlexW2019009209MaRDI QIDQ3604740FDOQ3604740

Authors: Qi Cheng 

Publication date: 24 February 2009

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The minimum distance is one of the most important combinatorial characterizations of a code. The maximum likelihood decoding problem is one of the most important algorithmic problems of a code. While these problems are known to be hard for general linear codes, the techniques used to prove their hardness often rely on the construction of artificial codes. In general, much less is known about the hardness of the specific classes of natural linear codes. In this paper, we show that both problems are NP-hard for algebraic geometry codes. We achieve this by reducing a well-known NP-complete problem to these problems using a randomized algorithm. The family of codes in the reductions are based on elliptic curves. They have positive rates, but the alphabet sizes are exponential in the block lengths.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0507026

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zbMATH Keywords

complexity theorymaximum-likelihood decodingAlgebraic-geometric codes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.) (68Q17) Geometric methods (including applications of algebraic geometry) applied to coding theory (94B27) Decoding (94B35)

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