We give a polynomial time construction of binary codes with the best
currently known trade-off between rate and error-correction
radius. Specifically, we obtain linear codes over fixed alphabets
that can be list decoded in polynomial time up to the so called
Blokh-Zyablov bound. Our work ... more >>>

Algebraic codes that achieve list decoding capacity were recently
constructed by a careful ``folding'' of the Reed-Solomon code. The
``low-degree'' nature of this folding operation was crucial to the list
decoding algorithm. We show how such folding schemes conducive to list
decoding arise out of the Artin-Frobenius automorphism at primes ... more >>>

An error correcting code is said to be \emph{locally testable} if
there is a test that checks whether a given string is a codeword,
or rather far from the code, by reading only a small number of symbols
of the string. Locally testable codes (LTCs) are both interesting
in their ... more >>>