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This paper presents a criterion for an algebraic geometry (AG) code to be Galois self-orthogonal (SO), and constructs new classes of (maximum distance separable) Galois SO AG codes from projective lines, elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves, and Hermitian curves.
Abstract
The paper studies Galois self-orthogonal (SO) algebraic geometry (AG) codes, which are generalizations of Euclidean and Hermitian SO codes. The authors make the following key contributions:
They provide a criterion in Lemma 3.1 to determine if an AG code is Galois SO, answering the first part of the main problem.
Over projective lines, they propose an embedding method in Lemma 3.3 to construct more MDS Galois SO codes from known MDS Galois SO AG codes. They also present a new explicit construction of MDS Galois SO AG codes in Theorem 3.5.
Over projective elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves, and Hermitian curves, the authors construct some new Galois SO AG codes with good parameters in Theorems 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. These new (MDS) Galois SO AG codes are listed in Table 2.
The paper starts by reviewing basic concepts on algebraic function fields and AG codes. It then presents the main results on Galois SO AG codes, including the criterion, the embedding method, and the new constructions over different algebraic curves. The results provide a comprehensive solution to the main problem of constructing general Galois SO AG codes.