Constructions of quantum MDS codes

Abstract

Let ${\mathbb{F}}_q$ be a finite field with $q=p^e$ elements, where $p$ is a prime number and $e\ge 1$ is an integer. In this paper, by means of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, we construct two new classes of quantum maximum-distance-separable ( quantum MDS) codes with parameters $$[[q+1,2k-q-1,q-k+2]{]}_q$$ for $\lceil \frac{q+2}{2}\rceil \le k\le q+1$, and $$[[n,2k-n,n-k+1]{]}_q$$ for $n\le q$ and $\lceil \frac{n}{2}\rceil \le k\le n$. Our constructions improve and generalize some results of available in the literature. Moreover, we give an affirmative answer to the open problem proposed by Fang et al. in \cite{Fang1}.

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