Towers of global function fields with asymptotically many rational places and an improvement on the Gilbert-Varshamov bound

Mathematische Nachrichten

Volumn 195, Issue , 1998, Pages 171-186

  Niederreiter, Harald ^a   Xing, Chaoping ^b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Algebraic geometry codes; Gilbert Varshamov bound; Global function fields; Rational places

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032414864     PISSN: 0025584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mana.19981950110     Document Type: Article

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