• 1 Introduction and Setup
  • 2 Preliminaries ▶
    • 2.1 Codes and basic parameters
    • 2.2 The field trace and inner products
    • 2.3 The Gilbert–Varshamov bound and the goal
    • 2.4 Concatenated codes and default parameters
    • 2.5 Weight distribution of the inner code
    • 2.6 Fourier analysis over \(\mathbb {F}_2^{k_0 n}\)
    • 2.7 Standard probabilistic and combinatorial facts
  • 3 A Useful Moment Computation
  • 4 Most Linear Codes \(\mathcal{C}_{\mathrm{out}}\) Work Well
  • 5 A Soft-Decoding Sufficient Condition
  • 6 A High Min-Entropy Sufficient Condition
  • Dependency graph

When Do Low-Rate Concatenated Codes Approach the Gilbert–Varshamov Bound?

Doron, Mosheiff, Wootters (blueprint)

  • 1 Introduction and Setup
  • 2 Preliminaries
    • 2.1 Codes and basic parameters
    • 2.2 The field trace and inner products
    • 2.3 The Gilbert–Varshamov bound and the goal
    • 2.4 Concatenated codes and default parameters
    • 2.5 Weight distribution of the inner code
    • 2.6 Fourier analysis over \(\mathbb {F}_2^{k_0 n}\)
    • 2.7 Standard probabilistic and combinatorial facts
  • 3 A Useful Moment Computation
  • 4 Most Linear Codes \(\mathcal{C}_{\mathrm{out}}\) Work Well
  • 5 A Soft-Decoding Sufficient Condition
  • 6 A High Min-Entropy Sufficient Condition