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Parity-check matrix. In coding theory, a parity-check matrix of a linear block code C is a matrix which describes the linear relations that the components of a codeword must satisfy. It can be used to decide whether a particular vector is a codeword and is also used in decoding algorithms.
Generator matrix. In coding theory, a generator matrix is a matrix whose rows form a basis for a linear code. The codewords are all of the linear combinations of the rows of this matrix, that is, the linear code is the row space of its generator matrix.
Reed–Muller codes are linear block codes that are locally testable, locally decodable, and list decodable. These properties make them particularly useful in the design of probabilistically checkable proofs. Traditional Reed–Muller codes are binary codes, which means that messages and codewords are binary strings.
Codes of types I, II, III, or IV exist only if the length n is a multiple of 2, 8, 4, or 2 respectively. If a self-dual code has a generator matrix of the form , then the dual code has generator matrix , where is the identity matrix and .
The Hadamard code is a linear code, and all linear codes can be generated by a generator matrix . This is a matrix such that holds for all , where the message is viewed as a row vector and the vector-matrix product is understood in the vector space over the finite field .
Systematic code. In coding theory, a systematic code is any error-correcting code in which the input data are embedded in the encoded output. Conversely, in a non-systematic code the output does not contain the input symbols. Systematic codes have the advantage that the parity data can simply be appended to the source block, and receivers do ...
The field of channel coding is concerned with sending a stream of data at the highest possible rate over a given communications channel, and then decoding the original data reliably at the receiver, using encoding and decoding algorithms that are feasible to implement in a given technology. Shannon's channel coding theorem shows that over many common channels there exist channel coding schemes ...
Polynomial code In coding theory, a polynomial code is a type of linear code whose set of valid code words consists of those polynomials (usually of some fixed length) that are divisible by a given fixed polynomial (of shorter length, called the generator polynomial ).