A note on rank-metric codes

arXiv2007.01991MaRDI QIDQ6344403FDOQ6344403

Authors: José Alves Oliveira 

Publication date: 3 July 2020

Abstract: Let $mathbb{F}_q$ denote the finite field with $q=p^{l}ambda$ elements. Maximum Rank-metric codes (MRD for short) are subsets of $M_{mimesn}(mathbb{F}_q)$ whose number of elements attains the Singleton-like bound. The first MRD codes known was found by Delsarte (1978) and Gabidulin (1985). Sheekey (2016) presented a new class of MRD codes over $mathbbFq$ called twisted Gabidulin codes and also proposed a generalization of the twisted Gabidulin codes to the codes $mathcal{H}_{k,s}(L_1,L_2)$. The equivalence and duality of twisted Gabidulin codes was discussed by Lunardoni, Trombetti, and Zhou (2018). A new class of MRD codes in $M_{2nimes2n}(mathbb{F}_q)$ was found by Trombetti-Zhou (2018). In this work, we characterize the equivalence of the class of codes proposed by Sheekey, generalizing the results known for twisted Gabidulin codes and Trombetti-Zhou codes. In the second part of the paper, we restrict ourselves to the case $L_1(x)=x$, where we present its right nucleus, middle nucleus, Delsarte dual and adjoint codes. In the last section, we present the automorphism group of $mathcal{H}_{k,s}(x,L(x))$ and compute its cardinality. In particular, we obtain the number of elements in the automorphism group of the twisted Gabidulin codes.

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