Projections on Codes
Prof. Keith Mellinger, University of Illinois at Chicago
Monday April 22
Abstract.
The construction of good binary (linear) codes from shorter codes
has been widely studied by coding theorists. One motivation is to
lower the decoding complexity of the original code. We will start
with a survey of the theory of error-correcting codes. After
taking a look at the main problems, notations, and techniques, we
will look at examples of codes and discuss some of the current
applications and trends in the research. From there, we will
discuss a certain projection technique whereby one can obtain an
additive code over GF(4) from a binary linear code of longer
length. We generalize the projection, look at several examples,
and discuss the associated automorphism groups.
This talk will be accessible to a diverse audience.
This talk is jointly organized with
Applied Mathmatics Seminar.