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Type-2 QC LDPC codes and upper bounds on the minimum distance

Matrapu Sumanth Datt, Mansoor Ali, Rubayya, Varad Deshpande

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In this paper, we consider Quasi Cyclic Low Density Parity Check (QC LDPC) codes.This important family of codes has wide applications in the field of information theory and post-quantum cryptography.In [1], the authors consider type-1 QC LDPC codes and give an upper bound on the minimum distance of these codes.Stimulated by their work, in this paper we give upper bound on the minimum distance of type-2 QC LDPC codes.

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10.1063/5.0199446

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