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On the equivalence between additive and linear codes

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Kanat Abdukhalikov, Duy Ho

Abstract

Additive codes have attracted considerable attention for their potential to outperform linear codes. However, distinguishing strictly additive codes from those that are equivalent to linear codes remains a fundamental challenge. To resolve this ambiguity, we introduce a deterministic test that requires only the generator matrix of the code. We apply this test to verify the strict additivity of several quaternary additive codes recently reported in the literature. Conversely, we demonstrate that a previously known additive complementary dual (ACD) code is equivalent to a linear Hermitian LCD code, thereby improving the best-known bounds for such linear codes.

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arXiv ID: 2603.15071
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: cs.IT
Published: 2026-03-16
Fetched: 2026-03-17 06:02

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