Pseudo-cyclic Codes and the Construction of Quantum MDS Codes

Shuxing Li, Maosheng Xiong, Gennian Ge · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 2016

Constacyclic codes which generalize the classical cyclic codes have played important roles in recent constructions of many new quantum maximum distance separable (MDS) codes. However, the mathematical mechanism may not have been fully understood. In this paper, we use pseudo-cyclic codes, which is a further generalization of constacyclic codes, to construct the quantum MDS codes. We can not only provide a unified explanation of many previous constructions, but also produce some new quantum MDS codes.

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