List Decoding of Quaternary Codes in the Lee Metric

Abstract

We present a list decoding algorithm for quaternary negacyclic codes over the Lee metric. To achieve this result, we use a Sudan-Guruswami type list decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon codes over certain ring alphabets. Our decoding strategy for negacyclic codes over the ring ${\mathbb{Z}}_4$ combines the list decoding algorithm by Wu with the Gröbner basis approach for solving a key equation due to Byrne and Fitzpatrick.

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