Delsarte (or linear programming) bounds#
This module provides LP upper bounds for the parameters of codes, introduced in by P. Delsarte in [De1973].
The exact LP solver PPL is used by default, ensuring that no rounding/overflow problems occur.
AUTHORS:
Dmitrii V. (Dima) Pasechnik (2012-10): initial implementation
Dmitrii V. (Dima) Pasechnik (2015, 2021): minor fixes
Charalampos Kokkalis (2021): Eberlein polynomials, general Q matrix codes
- sage.coding.delsarte_bounds.delsarte_bound_Q_matrix(q, d, return_data=False, solver='PPL', isinteger=False)#
Delsarte bound on a code with Q matrix
q
and lower bound on min. dist.d
.Find the Delsarte bound on a code with Q matrix
q
and lower bound on minimal distanced
.INPUT:
q
– the Q matrixd
– the (lower bound on) minimal distance of the codereturn_data
– ifTrue
, return a triple(W,LP,bound)
, whereW
is a weights vector, andLP
the Delsarte upper bound LP; both of them are Sage LP data.W
need not be a weight distribution of a code.solver
– the LP/ILP solver to be used. Defaults toPPL
. It is arbitrary precision, thus there will be no rounding errors. With other solvers (seeMixedIntegerLinearProgram
for the list), you are on your own!isinteger
– ifTrue
, uses an integer programming solver (ILP), rather that an LP solver. Can be very slow if set toTrue
.
EXAMPLES:
The bound on dimension of linear \(\GF{2}\)-codes of length 10 and minimal distance 6:
sage: q_matrix = Matrix([[codes.bounds.krawtchouk(10,2,i,j) for i in range(11)] ....: for j in range(11)]) sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_Q_matrix(q_matrix, 6) 2 sage: a,p,val = codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_Q_matrix(q_matrix, 6, return_data=True) sage: [j for i,j in p.get_values(a).items()] [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]
- sage.coding.delsarte_bounds.delsarte_bound_additive_hamming_space(n, d, q, d_star=1, q_base=0, return_data=False, solver='PPL', isinteger=False)#
Find a modified Delsarte bound on additive codes in Hamming space \(H_q^n\) of minimal distance \(d\).
Find the Delsarte LP bound on
F_{q_base}
-dimension of additive codes in Hamming space \(H_q^n\) of minimal distanced
with minimal distance of the dual code at leastd_star
. Ifq_base
is set to non-zero, thenq
is a power ofq_base
, and the code is, formally, linear overF_{q_base}
. Otherwise it is assumed thatq_base==q
.INPUT:
n
– the code lengthd
– the (lower bound on) minimal distance of the codeq
– the size of the alphabetd_star
– the (lower bound on) minimal distance of the dual code; only makes sense for additive codes.q_base
– if0
, the code is assumed to be linear. Otherwise,q=q_base^m
and the code is linear overF_{q_base}
.return_data
– ifTrue
, return a triple(W,LP,bound)
, whereW
is a weights vector, andLP
the Delsarte bound LP; both of them are Sage LP data.W
need not be a weight distribution of a code, or, ifisinteger==False
, even have integer entries.solver
– the LP/ILP solver to be used. Defaults to'PPL'
. It is arbitrary precision, thus there will be no rounding errors. With other solvers (seeMixedIntegerLinearProgram
for the list), you are on your own!isinteger
– ifTrue
, uses an integer programming solver (ILP), rather that an LP solver. Can be very slow if set toTrue
.
EXAMPLES:
The bound on dimension of linear \(\GF{2}\)-codes of length 11 and minimal distance 6:
sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_additive_hamming_space(11, 6, 2) 3 sage: a,p,val = codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_additive_hamming_space(\ 11, 6, 2, return_data=True) sage: [j for i,j in p.get_values(a).items()] [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0]
The bound on the dimension of linear \(\GF{4}\)-codes of length 11 and minimal distance 3:
sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_additive_hamming_space(11,3,4) 8
The bound on the \(\GF{2}\)-dimension of additive \(\GF{4}\)-codes of length 11 and minimal distance 3:
sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_additive_hamming_space(11,3,4,q_base=2) 16
Such a
d_star
is not possible:sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_additive_hamming_space(11,3,4,d_star=9) Solver exception: PPL : There is no feasible solution False
- sage.coding.delsarte_bounds.delsarte_bound_constant_weight_code(n, d, w, return_data=False, solver='PPL', isinteger=False)#
Find the Delsarte bound on a constant weight code.
Find the Delsarte bound on a constant weight code of weight
w
, lengthn
, lower bound on minimal distanced
.INPUT:
n
– the code lengthd
– the (lower bound on) minimal distance of the codew
– the weight of the codereturn_data
– ifTrue
, return a triple(W,LP,bound)
, whereW
is a weights vector, andLP
the Delsarte upper bound LP; both of them are Sage LP data.W
need not be a weight distribution of a code.solver
– the LP/ILP solver to be used. Defaults toPPL
. It is arbitrary precision, thus there will be no rounding errors. With other solvers (seeMixedIntegerLinearProgram
for the list), you are on your own!isinteger
– ifTrue
, uses an integer programming solver (ILP), rather that an LP solver. Can be very slow if set toTrue
.
EXAMPLES:
The bound on the size of codes of length 17, weight 3, and minimal distance 4:
sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_constant_weight_code(17, 4, 3) 45 sage: a, p, val = codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_constant_weight_code(17, 4, 3, return_data=True) sage: [j for i,j in p.get_values(a).items()] [21, 70/3]
The stricter bound (using ILP) on codes of length 17, weight 3, and minimal distance 4:
sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_constant_weight_code(17, 4, 3, isinteger=True) 43
- sage.coding.delsarte_bounds.delsarte_bound_hamming_space(n, d, q, return_data=False, solver='PPL', isinteger=False)#
Find the Delsarte bound on codes in
H_q^n
of minimal distanced
Find the Delsarte bound [De1973] on the size of codes in the Hamming space
H_q^n
of minimal distanced
.INPUT:
n
– the code lengthd
– the (lower bound on) minimal distance of the codeq
– the size of the alphabetreturn_data
– ifTrue
, return a triple(W,LP,bound)
, whereW
is a weights vector, andLP
the Delsarte upper bound LP; both of them are Sage LP data.W
need not be a weight distribution of a code.solver
– the LP/ILP solver to be used. Defaults toPPL
. It is arbitrary precision, thus there will be no rounding errors. With other solvers (seeMixedIntegerLinearProgram
for the list), you are on your own!isinteger
– ifTrue
, uses an integer programming solver (ILP), rather that an LP solver. Can be very slow if set toTrue
.
EXAMPLES:
The bound on the size of the \(\GF{2}\)-codes of length 11 and minimal distance 6:
sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_hamming_space(11, 6, 2) 12 sage: a, p, val = codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_hamming_space(11, 6, 2, return_data=True) sage: [j for i,j in p.get_values(a).items()] [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 11, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
The bound on the size of the \(\GF{2}\)-codes of length 24 and minimal distance 8, i.e. parameters of the extended binary Golay code:
sage: a,p,x = codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_hamming_space(24,8,2,return_data=True) sage: x 4096 sage: [j for i,j in p.get_values(a).items()] [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 759, 0, 0, 0, 2576, 0, 0, 0, 759, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]
The bound on the size of \(\GF{4}\)-codes of length 11 and minimal distance 3:
sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_hamming_space(11,3,4) 327680/3
An improvement of a known upper bound (150) from https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/codes/binary-1.html
sage: a,p,x = codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_hamming_space(23,10,2,return_data=True,isinteger=True); x # long time 148 sage: [j for i,j in p.get_values(a).items()] # long time [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 95, 0, 2, 0, 36, 0, 14, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
Note that a usual LP, without integer variables, won’t do the trick
sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_hamming_space(23,10,2).n(20) 151.86
Such an input is invalid:
sage: codes.bounds.delsarte_bound_hamming_space(11,3,-4) Solver exception: PPL : There is no feasible solution False
- sage.coding.delsarte_bounds.eberlein(n, w, k, u, check=True)#
Compute \(E^{w,n}_k(x)\), the Eberlein polynomial.
See Wikipedia article Eberlein_polynomials.
It is defined as:
\[E^{w,n}_k(u)=\sum_{j=0}^k (-1)^j \binom{u}{j} \binom{w-u}{k-j} \binom{n-w-u}{k-j},\]INPUT:
w, k, x
– arbitrary numbersn
– a nonnegative integercheck
– check the input for correctness.True
by default. Otherwise, pass it as it is. Usecheck=False
at your own risk.
EXAMPLES:
sage: codes.bounds.eberlein(24,10,2,6) -9
- sage.coding.delsarte_bounds.krawtchouk(n, q, l, x, check=True)#
Compute \(K^{n,q}_l(x)\), the Krawtchouk (a.k.a. Kravchuk) polynomial.
See Wikipedia article Kravchuk_polynomials.
It is defined by the generating function
\[(1+(q-1)z)^{n-x}(1-z)^x=\sum_{l} K^{n,q}_l(x)z^l\]and is equal to
\[K^{n,q}_l(x)=\sum_{j=0}^l (-1)^j (q-1)^{(l-j)} \binom{x}{j} \binom{n-x}{l-j}.\]INPUT:
n, q, x
– arbitrary numbersl
– a nonnegative integercheck
– check the input for correctness.True
by default. Otherwise, pass it as it is. Usecheck=False
at your own risk.
See also
Symbolic Krawtchouk polynomials
\(\tilde{K}_l(x; n, p)\) which are related by\[(-q)^l K^{n,q^{-1}}_l(x) = \tilde{K}_l(x; n, 1-q).\]EXAMPLES:
sage: codes.bounds.krawtchouk(24,2,5,4) 2224 sage: codes.bounds.krawtchouk(12300,4,5,6) 567785569973042442072