MDS and AMDS symbol-pair codes are constructed from repeated-root codes
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Symbol-pair codes introduced by Cassuto and Blaum in 2010 are designed to protect against the pair errors in symbol-pair read channels. One of the central themes in symbol-error correction is the construction of maximal distance separable (MDS) symbol-pair codes that possess the largest possible pair-error correcting performance. In this paper, we construct more general generator polynomials for two classes of MDS symbol-pair codes with code length lp. Based on repeated-root cyclic codes, we derive all MDS symbol-pair codes of length 3p, when the degree of the generator polynomials is no more than 10. We also give two new classes of (almost maximal distance separable) AMDS symbol-pair codes with the length lp or 4p by virtue of repeated-root cyclic codes. For length 3p, we derive all AMDS symbol-pair codes, when the degree of the generator polynomials is less than 10. The main results are obtained by determining the solutions of certain equations over finite fields.
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