A hensel lifting to replace factorization in list-decoding of algebraic-geometric and reed solomon codes

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Abstract

This correspondence presents an algorithmic improvement to Sudan's list-decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon codes and its generalization to algebraic-geometric codes from Shokrollahi and Wasserman. Instead of completely factoring the interpolation polynomial over the function field of the curve, we compute sufficiently many coefficients of a Hensel development to reconstruct the functions that correspond to codewords. We prove that these Hensel developments can be found efficiently using Newton's method. We also describe the algorithm in the special case of Reed-Solomon codes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2605-2614
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume46
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2000

Keywords

  • Algebraic-geometric codes
  • Hensel lifting
  • List decoding
  • Newton's method
  • Polynomials over algebraic function fields
  • Reed-solomon codes

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