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TR08-111 | 14th November 2008 00:00

The List-Decoding Size of Reed-Muller Codes

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TR08-111
Authors: Shachar Lovett, Tali Kaufman
Publication: 24th December 2008 15:41
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Abstract:

In this work we study the list-decoding size of Reed-Muller codes. Given a received word and a distance parameter, we are interested in bounding the size of the list of Reed-Muller codewords that are within that distance from the received word. Previous bounds of Gopalan, Klivans and Zuckerman~\cite{GKZ08} on the list size of Reed-Muller codes apply only up to the minimum distance of the code. In this work we provide asymptotic bounds for the list-decoding size of Reed-Muller codes that apply for {\em all} distances. Additionally, we study the weight distribution of Reed-Muller codes. Prior results of Kasami and Tokura~\cite{KT70} on the structure of Reed-Muller codewords up to twice the minimum distance, imply bounds on the weight distribution of the code that apply only until twice the minimum distance. We provide accumulative bounds for the weight distribution of Reed-Muller codes that apply to {\em all} distances.



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