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The theory of error-correcting codes stems from Shannon's 1948 _A mathematical theory of communication_, and from Hamming's 1950 "Error detecting and error correcting codes".

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Reed-Muller-Codes

A thing to remember is that the customer is interested in the probability of correct reception after the error-correcting-code has done its magic. The 5-dimensional Reed-Muller code of length 16 and …
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Hot-topics in error correcting coding related to interesting math. ?

Your list certainly has many nice topics. 1) Yup. This would be nice to have. In practical applications we can get rid of the error-floor by concatenating a decent LDPC with a good high rate algebr …
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What is "automorphism group of an error-correcting code" ?

The commenters got it right. The automorphism group of a binary code is the set of permutations of coordinates that stabilizes the code. If instead of using the binary alphabet we use a ternary, quate …
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Will "error locating codes" have higher rates than ECCs?

A bit of terminology: An error-detection-code usually means something else. An error-detection-code is expected to raise a flag if something is wrong, IOW if the received sequence is not a valid code …
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Good codes in practice for correcting combination of errors and erasures

The answer depends on several things. If your channel (or receiver) produces erasures and errors, then the relevant metric is the Hamming metric, as a code with minimum distance $d$ can correct a com …
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What is matrix A such that Hamming weight of [x, Ax] is maximal ? (Min distance of 1/2 bloc...

This is, indeed, an open question for most values of $n$. A.D. Brouwer maintains a database of the best known lower and upper bounds, and everything that is known for small $n$ can be found there. A m …
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Certain Integer Sets of Elements with Common Hamming-weight Preserving Integer Function

The following sequences work as $\Sigma$ for $f(x)=x^2$ $x_n=2^n-1$ has Hamming weight $n$ as does $x_n^2=2^{2n}-2^{n+1}+1$ (the number $2^{2n}-2^{n+1}$ has a run of $n-1$ ones followed by $n+1$ zer …
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"Sparse" Theta Series

Won't the following argument show that the difference between successive exponents can never be bounded away from zero no matter how clever you try to be in selecting $(a,b)$? The idea is to consider …
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What are "best" polynoms f(x) g(x) of degree n ? I.e. ideal generated by them is as far from...

The following simple (suboptimal) bound will get you started. It is easier to give a lower bound for the degree $n$ of the polynomials in terms of the minimum distance $d$, so I will do that. Feel fre …
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MacWilliams Identity for Asymptotic Weight Spectrum of a Code

Only worth a comment, but I'm low-rep, so... I agree with Math Into Coding in the sense that this question is unlikely to have a useful answer. The observation I want to make is that the weight distr …
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Error correcting codes obtained as superposition of two codes e.g. CRC+Convolutional

You do know how to calculate the minimum distance (=free distance?) of a convolutional code? Cut the first edge from the zero state to the zero state (to disallow the all zeros word), and run Viterbi …
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Structure of F_p[G], for finite group G ?

Adding a few words from the coding theory side. Abelian groups without $p$-torsion are somewhat more natural in coding theory, because then we get the machinery of discrete Fourier transform (which is …
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Hamming codes from overlapping vectors

As pointed out by Gerry Myerson, this has a lot to do with autocorrelation of a sequence. More specifically incomplete (or aperiodic) autocorrelation. What I say below will give something non-trivial …
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Lee codes and $n$-torus

The best hit I found using IEEEXplore is the following paper by Martinez, Beivide & Gabidulin from August 2009 issue of IEEE Transactions on Inf. Theory. ============================================ …
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Optimization problem related to parity check code

This is basically a retranslation of the problem into algebraic language. We are given an $n\times(n+k)$ matrix $A$ with entries in $GF(2)$ of the form $A=(I_n\mid B)$, where the matrix $B$ has no zer …
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