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Here's an example.
Let
be a finite group of order
generated by
. Let
denote the Cayley
graph of
and let
be the incidence matrix
of
. Then the matrix
is the parity
check matrix of a LDPC code, provided
is ``small'' with
respect to
. See [LR] and the references cited there
for more details on such constructions.
Here's a small example using MAGMA. (Note that MAGMA does not
have the ability to create a code from its parity check matrix,
so we must treat the parity check matrix as the
generator matrix of the dual code.)
> S3:=PermutationGroup< 3 | (1,2),(1,2,3)>;
> Gamma:=CayleyGraph(S3);
> Gamma;
Digraph
Vertex Neighbours
1 3 4 ;
2 3 4 ;
3 1 6 ;
4 2 5 ;
5 1 6 ;
6 2 5 ;
> I:=IncidenceMatrix(Gamma);
> I;
[ 1 1 0 0 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0]
[ 0 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0 0 0 -1 0]
[-1 0 -1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[ 0 -1 0 -1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 1 1 0 -1]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 -1 1 1]
> NumberOfColumns(I);
12
> NumberOfRows(I);
6
> M := KMatrixSpace(FiniteField(2), 6,12);
> G:=M!I;
> C1:=LinearCode(G);
> C:=Dual(C1);
> Dimension(C);
7
> MinimumDistance(C);
2
> C;
[12, 7, 2] Linear Code over GF(2)
Generator matrix:
[1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1]
[0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0]
[0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0]
[0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1]
[0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1]
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1]
David Joyner
2002-08-23