Lifted Multiplicity Codes

05/06/2019

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by   Ray Li, et al.

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Lifted Reed Solomon Codes (Guo, Kopparty, Sudan 2013) were introduced in the context of locally correctable and testable codes. They are multivariate polynomials whose restriction to any line is a codeword of a Reed-Solomon code. We generalize their construction by introducing lifted multiplicity codes, multivariate polynomial codes whose restriction to any line is a codeword of a multiplicity code (Kopparty, Saraf, Yekhanin 2014). We show that lifted multiplicity codes have a better trade-off between redundancy and a notion of locality called the t-disjoint-repair-group property than previously known constructions. More precisely, we show that lifted multiplicity codes with length N and redundancy O(t^0.585√(N)) have the property that any symbol of a codeword can be reconstructed in t different ways, each using a disjoint subset of the other coordinates. This gives the best known trade-off for this problem for any super-constant t < √(N). We also give an alternative analysis of lifted Reed Solomon codes using dual codes, which may be of independent interest.