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Closed 8 days ago

# Gabidulin Codes

Reported by: Owned by: arpitdm major sage-7.3 coding theory dlucas, jsrn, caruso, gh-emes4, gh-Adurand8 Arpit Merchant, Marketa Slukova Dima Pasechnik, Johan Rosenkilde N/A 64af632 (Commits)

### Description

A Linear Gabidulin Code Gab[n,k] over F_{qm} of length n <= m and dimension k <= n is the set of all words, formed by the operator evaluation of a q-degree restricted skew polynomial (with frobenius endomorphism and a finite field) f(x) \in S_{F_{qm}}[x].

i.e. Gab[n,k] = {(f(g_0), f(g_1),..., f(g_{n-1})) = f(g): deg(f) < k}

where g_0,...,g_{n-1} are fixed elements belonging to F_{qm} and are linearly independent over F_{q}

This ticket proposes a new class for Gabidulin Codes along with encoders and decoders for it.

### comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by arpitdm

• Branch set to u/arpitdm/gabidulin_codes

### comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by arpitdm

• Commit set to ddaef4138cf29d70428a80539d249461226fbc9d

A few points:

1. I've not added the tests and documentation for now since the code design is still in flux.
2. The file compiles successfully and one can create the code and codewords in vector form, i.e. F_{qm}n.
3. One problem right now is that, although the dual code and the parity check matrix that are constructed are correct (verified by trying G*HT = 0, as well as checking linear independence of h_0, h_1,..., h_{n-1}), I am using a random element from the right kernel of the coefficient matrix (Equation 2.28 of Antonia Wachter-Zeh's PhD thesis). And so dual of the dual code does not give me the original code. solve_right returns the trivial (all-zeros) solution.
4. Should there be a def generator_matrix method within the code class itself?

New commits:

 ​ddaef41 Initial construction of the Gabidulin Code class. PolynomialEvaluationEncoder and GeneratorMatrixEncoder also included.

### comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by dlucas

Hello,

To answer your question (4.), for now, yes, I guess you need to have such a method. Later on, when the abstract class to manage rank-metric codes will be implemented we can replicate the design used in AbstractLinearCode, but for now, copy-pasting generator_matrix from AbstractLinearCode and put it in GabidulinCode is fine.

Some remarks:

1. You don't have to use backslashes to jump lines when you're in a parenthesis/square bracket block. For instance, you can write:
% (self.length(), self.dimension(), \
self.minimum_distance(), self.base_field())

as
% (self.length(), self.dimension(),
self.minimum_distance(), self.base_field())

1. Lines 19-34 are more or less copy-pasted from relative_finite_field_extension.py, and are not necessary. Take lines 19-20 for instance: it's a carbon copy of lines 116-117 of relative_finite_field_extension.py (except you replaced must be by has to be in the error message)... Which basically means you run the same sanity check twice: first time on lines 19-20 and second time line 49 when calling the constructing a RelativeFiniteFieldExtension. I think you should just remove all those tests and let RelativeFiniteFieldExtension do its job on sanitizing.
1. In the same vein: you copy-pasted a lot of getter from relative_finite_field_extension.py, and I'm not sure it makes sense. The user might be a bit puzzled by absolute_field_power which returns something of little relevance wrt. the Gabidulin code. Furthermore, if the user desperately needs to access this value, they can still access it by the RelativeFiniteFieldExtension returned by relative_finite_field_extension (this one we should keep).
1. There's some kind of naming conflict: evaluation_points and linearly_independent_elements are the same (see line 68), but while the user has to write linearly_independent_elements=stuff at construction time, they have to write my_code.evaluation_points() to access them from the constructed code. I think you should choose one name and stick to it. I vote for evaluation_points for consistency with grs.py.
1. Remember to not call methods in for loops except it's absolutely necessary. You do this on lines 96-97, 180-184 and 212. E.g. line 182, as return value of p.coefficients() never changes throughout the iterations, I would store it in a local variable and use this local variable instead.

Otherwise it seems good.

Best,

David

### comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

Noticed the following: In one place, you should be computing sigma^t(g) for some power t and some element g, where sigma is the Frobenius automorphism. You implement this as pow(sigma(g), t), but that's not what it means. Rather, it means sigma( sigma( ... sigma(g)...), where there is t sigmas. In another place, you compute simply g^(q^t) instead of calling sigma, which is also bad style; it should again be sigma called t times on g.

### comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

Also, avoid "log" if you can:

• s = log(q,p) should be s = relative_field.degree(). Similar with sm.
• m should be sm / m. Check if the division goes well.

### comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by git

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. Last 10 new commits:

 ​de61ca4 Importing ring_element, integral_domain and principal_ideal_domain were throwing deprecation warnings. Updated the import statements according to Tickets 19167 and 20011. ​9d21b54 module that implements class 'Side' with Left and Right as the two instances. ​9de7bc1 Merge branch 'u/arpitdm/skew_polynomials' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into skew_polynomials ​9c526ad Fixed doctests caused by deprecation warnings, inability to access private variables, AttributeError in accessing of parent, and . ​a06c2bf Merge branch 'u/arpitdm/skew_polynomials' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into skew_polynomials ​18c7982 Fixed bug with integer coercion ​c6183bc Merge branch 'develop' into temp3 ​dd5c575 Editing declarations of cython functions so as to make them compatible. ​60b7869 Merge branch 'u/arpitdm/skew_polynomials' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into gabidulin_codes ​40a3d37 Refactored code based on comments 3, 4 and 5. Added support for vector_to_matrix and matrix_to_vector representations of codewords. Added methods for rank_weight of a codeword and rank_distance between two codewords.

### comment:7 follow-up: ↓ 10 Changed 4 years ago by arpitdm

Oh! I thought I only added the gabidulin.py file to my commit. Is there a way I can remove the skew polynomial files from this ticket?

Also, @jsrn, you mention I computed gqt in the generator matrix of the code. According to Equation 2.27 of the PhD thesis, there is no sigma in the formation of the elements of the generator matrix.

### comment:8 Changed 4 years ago by git

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:

 ​799d871 Added support for in the PolynomialEvaluationEncoder. This includes methods for fast lagrange-type interpolation of skew polynomials, minimum subspace polynomials and multi point evaluation of skew polynomials.

### comment:9 Changed 4 years ago by arpitdm

unencode_nocheck method in the Polynomial Evaluation Encoder does not work right now because it calls the right division of one skew polynomial by another which fails because of the integer coercion error in #13215. Apart from that, as far as I am able to check, the four new methods are implemented correctly and they do not cause any errors during build or runtime.

### comment:10 in reply to: ↑ 7 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

Oh! I thought I only added the gabidulin.py file to my commit. Is there a way I can remove the skew polynomial files from this ticket?

I guess you merged in the current tip of #13215 and that's what is showing up as a long list of commits? That's perfectly ok (#13215 is a dependency of this ticket).

Also, @jsrn, you mention I computed gqt in the generator matrix of the code. According to Equation 2.27 of the PhD thesis, there is no sigma in the formation of the elements of the generator matrix.

Well, due to sigma always being the Frobenius, then sigma^t(g) is, by definition, g^(q^t). Wachter-Zeh just chose to write things using explicit q-powering notation everywhere, instead of writing sigma. But it is more mathematically elegant to write sigma, and it fits better with the rest of the code. (say for instance that we choose to make a parameter that you can construct Gabidulin codes with sigma be a power of Frobenius, e.g. sigma(g) = g^(q^2). These are sometimes, somewhat ridiculously, called "Generalized Gabidulin codes").

### comment:12 Changed 4 years ago by git

• Commit changed from 799d8713e4f49ff7301633fe6313271ad2082062 to e1bf28f3123ddd4188172199ca490b2b5f2b2519

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. Last 10 new commits:

 ​9064e0e Fix division bug in interpolation ​6618340 Fix divide-by-two potential problem in interpolation ​0635ec9 Merge branch '13215_skew_polynomials' into 21131_interpolation_skew_poly ​e67411f merge mvp_mpe ticket ​392047b Merge branch 'u/arpitdm/gabidulin_codes' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into gabidulin_codes ​d97d9c2 removed commented code ​4e3e143 updated encode function ​16d2d3d fixed generator matrix method ​3c1261f changed code constructor method to add linearized polynomial ring as mandatory argument ​e1bf28f added Gao decoder

### comment:13 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

Hi Arpit,

Just saw your Gao decoder, and I have a few initial comments:

• r_ (perhaps R is a better name) is an interpolation polynomial: construct it using your new interpolation_polynomial method instead of what you're manually doing right now (which is much slower).
• After you have performed the division and checked that rem is zero (use if rem.is_zero()), then you need to check that quo indeed corresponds to the message of a codeword close to r. See how the Gao decoder for Reed-Solomon codes does this with a helper function, covering both decode_to_message and decode_to_codeword in an efficient way.
• You _partial_xgcd would be more readable in a compact form, IMO. Say you call r_current -> r_c and r_previous -> r_p, then you can replace the loop body with:
    (quo, r_c), r_p = r_c.right_quo_rem(r_p), r_c
u_c, u_p = u_p - q*u_c, u_c
v_c, v_p = v_p - q*v_c, v_c


Best, Johan

### comment:14 follow-up: ↓ 15 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

Another comment: The Gabidulin constructor shouldn't take the skew polynomial ring (NOT linearized polynomial ring) as an argument, just like Reed-Solomon and Reed-Muller codes don't take it a polynomial ring as argument. Indeed: the code itself (being a sub-vector space of GF(q^m)^n) is invariant of the skew polynomial ring used for encoding the code from a message space. By this logic, the polynomial encoder objects for Reed-Solomon and Reed-Muller codes can optionally take a polynomial ring, but if the user doesn't supply one, one will be created automatically.

### comment:15 in reply to: ↑ 14 ; follow-up: ↓ 16 Changed 4 years ago by arpitdm

Another comment: The Gabidulin constructor shouldn't take the skew polynomial ring (NOT linearized polynomial ring) as an argument, just like Reed-Solomon and Reed-Muller codes don't take it a polynomial ring as argument. Indeed: the code itself (being a sub-vector space of GF(q^m)^n) is invariant of the skew polynomial ring used for encoding the code from a message space. By this logic, the polynomial encoder objects for Reed-Solomon and Reed-Muller codes can optionally take a polynomial ring, but if the user doesn't supply one, one will be created automatically.

The reason I put it there is because although the code is a subspace, the skew polynomial ring takes an additional argument, the base ring automorphism. This is not required in a GRS code. It could be Frobenius or a power of the Frobenius, right? And so, a given polynomial could belong to different rings. In the earlier commits I had assumed that the automorphism is the Frobenius.

### comment:16 in reply to: ↑ 15 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

The reason I put it there is because although the code is a subspace, the skew polynomial ring takes an additional argument, the base ring automorphism. This is not required in a GRS code. It could be Frobenius or a power of the Frobenius, right? And so, a given polynomial could belong to different rings. In the earlier commits I had assumed that the automorphism is the Frobenius.

True. The Gabidulin code constructor could therefore take as argument /which/ power of the Frobenius (integer between 1 and m-1, both inclusive). That feels more natural for the user, and is much less work to specify.

Best, Johan

### comment:17 follow-up: ↓ 18 Changed 4 years ago by caruso

Actually, thanks to the recent PhD thesis of Robert, Gabidulin codes make sense (and seem to have applications) for extensions of infinite fields (e.g. number fields) as well. Moreover I strongly believe (although I have not checked it carefully) and Wechter-Zeh's algorithms extend readily to the general case.

For this reason, I would say that it makes sense to allow more general morphisms that powers of Frobenius. Concretely I propose to replace the current linearized_polynomial_ring by twisting_homomorphism (and possibly make relative_field optional and let the default be the fixed ring under the twisting homomorphism).

### comment:18 in reply to: ↑ 17 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

Actually, thanks to the recent PhD thesis of Robert, Gabidulin codes make sense (and seem to have applications) for extensions of infinite fields (e.g. number fields) as well.

That's true and a good point. However, codes over infinite fields needs to be handled specially in many ways, and it would require special casing and some additional testing to do make sure things work. Also, our current plan is to let GabidulinCode inherit from AbstractLinearCode, and that class has many things which I know break over infinite fields.

Moreover I strongly believe (although I have not checked it carefully) and Wechter-Zeh's algorithms extend readily to the general case.

I'm also pretty sure it "just works". But it will have terrible performance in the Euclidean algorithm because of unmitigated coefficient growth.

For this reason, I would say that it makes sense to allow more general morphisms that powers of Frobenius. Concretely I propose to replace the current linearized_polynomial_ring by twisting_homomorphism (and possibly make relative_field optional and let the default be the fixed ring under the twisting homomorphism).

For the sake of getting this GSoC finished in time, I would down-vote officially supporting infinite fields. But of course, we can still think about the best interface that will scale well in the future. I think your suggestion wrt. these arguments is good if it is practical in the current Sage. For instance, how would I create a Frobenius automorphism from a relative field to an extension field, and such that the Gabidulin code constructor can query the fixed field? The following works poorly:

sage: q = 3^2
sage: F.<a> = GF(q^2, 'a')
sage: sigma = F.hom([a^q])
sage: sigma
Ring endomorphism of Finite Field in a of size 3^4
Defn: a |--> a^3 + a^2 + 2*a
sage: sigma.fixed_<tab gives nothing>


Best, Johan

### comment:19 Changed 4 years ago by caruso

OK for not supporting infinite fields for now. (And I agree that there are issues with growing of coefficients. By the way, do you know if there exists an analogue of subresultants for skew polynomials?)

sage: q = 5^2
sage: k.<a> = GF(q^2)
sage: Frob = k.frobenius_endomorphism(2)
sage: Frob.fixed_field()
(Finite Field in a_fixed of size 5^2, Ring morphism:
From: Finite Field in a_fixed of size 5^2
To:   Finite Field in a of size 5^4
Defn: a_fixed |--> 4*a^3 + 4*a^2 + 4*a + 3)


### comment:20 Changed 4 years ago by git

• Commit changed from e1bf28f3123ddd4188172199ca490b2b5f2b2519 to de37ab8ddf5bf0d18be9f49f73554c16242b48fc

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:

 ​de37ab8 fixed Gao decoder class

### comment:21 follow-up: ↓ 22 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

@arpitdm: Remember to add a message after you push. Your changes to the decoder looks good. I'm somewhat baffled why you changed GabidulinCode to inherit from AbstractLinearCode since we have been discussing for some time now that you should create a class AbstractLinearRankMetricCode.

@caruso: Thanks for the snippet, I hadn't noticed that but of course it's pretty obvious. I'm not sure, though, that I would find this behaviour the most intuitive for Gabidulin codes, especially if relative_field was automatically determined from the fixed field of twisting_homomorphism. Fir instance, an unsuspecting user might well do something like:

sage: F = GF(5^20,'a')
sage: evals = [ a^i for i in range(20) ]
sage: C = GabidulinCode(evals, k=5) # twisting_homomorphism taken to be absolute Frob.
sage: <fun experiments with C.>

sage: C2 = GabidulinCode(evals, k=5, twisting_homomorphism=F.frobenius_endomorphism(2))
<BOOM: Some error probably stating that the evaluation points are not linearly independent over the subfield>


A carefully phrased exception at the end would help the user find the bug in an interactive session, but I think this is the kind of surprising behaviour that one keeps on running into every time one uses the functionality.

I would prefer a session looking something like this:

sage: F = GF(5^20,'a')
sage: evals = [ a^i for i in range(20) ]
# unless specified, subfield = prime field, frobenius power = 1
sage: C = GabidulinCode(evals, k=5)
sage: C
[20,5,16] Gabidulin code over Finite Field in a of size 5^20 with subfield of size 5

sage: C2 = GabidulinCode(evals, k=5, frobenius_power=2) #subfield is still prime field
sage: C2
[20,5,16] Gabidulin code with Frobenius power 2 over Finite Field in a of size 5^20 with subfield of size 5

sage: C3 = GabidulinCode([a^i for i in range(10)], k=5, frobenius_power=2, subfield=GF(5^2,'b'))
sage: C3
[10,5,6] Gabidulin code over Finite Field in a of size 5^20 with subfield of size 5^2.


For your other question: I'm not aware of subresultants for skew polynomials, no. I've recently started looking at computations in skew polynomials in the more general setting of derivations, and over infinite fields. All algorithms I know of perform pretty terribly compared to the case without coefficient growth: the usual approaches of homomorphic imaging doesn't seem to work. Such rings seem more widely known as Ore polynomials. We should add a note about this in the doc of #13215.

### comment:22 in reply to: ↑ 21 ; follow-up: ↓ 23 Changed 4 years ago by arpitdm

@arpitdm: Remember to add a message after you push. Your changes to the decoder looks good. I'm somewhat baffled why you changed GabidulinCode to inherit from AbstractLinearCode since we have been discussing for some time now that you should create a class AbstractLinearRankMetricCode.

I was about to when discussion started on #13215. Anyway, in the _decode_to_code_and_message, I needed to use the connected_encoder method which is available in the AbstractLinearCode? class. Since ARMC is not yet opened, I inherited this temporarily from that. I will update to ARMC once it is possible.

### comment:23 in reply to: ↑ 22 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

I was about to when discussion started on #13215. Anyway, in the _decode_to_code_and_message, I needed to use the connected_encoder method which is available in the AbstractLinearCode? class. Since ARMC is not yet opened, I inherited this temporarily from that. I will update to ARMC once it is possible.

It's a method on Decoder - not AbstractLinearCode. But I can see how it could be practical to temporarily sidestep ARMC until it's there.

### comment:24 Changed 4 years ago by git

• Commit changed from de37ab8ddf5bf0d18be9f49f73554c16242b48fc to 72784538cec186b562d27f4ba825b5cd60bd332b

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. Last 10 new commits:

 ​b9f8239 merging latest changes ​34bebbc created top level functions for interpolation and fraction field skew polynomial ring. added documentation and indirect doctests. ​b523806 changed names of private methods ​e435f56 Merge branch 'u/arpitdm/mvp_mpe' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into mvp_mpe ​d403fae fixes to documentation ​7e4b3a3 added a very basic constructor, a couple of basic getter methods and deleted a couple of methods from ALC class. added some rank distance, rank weight, to_matrix_representation and from_matrix_representation. ​0657293 Merge branch 'u/arpitdm/abstract_linear_rank_metric_code_class' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into abstract_rank_metric_code ​08aef71 merging with updates from other tickets ​da374e9 small fix to docs ​7278453 added random_element method. refactored some code. added documentation and tests.

### comment:25 follow-up: ↓ 27 Changed 4 years ago by arpitdm

I've added refactored and scrubbed the code to make it cleaner where ever possible. I've created proper inheritances for the classes, and added some methods. And I've added documentation and tests for nearly every method and class. There are two issues that remain. One is def parity_evaluation_points where the problem is to find a concrete, non-trivial solution for the equation Ax = 0 where A is the coefficient matrix. I am not sure how to do that in Sage.

And the second is, finding the right name for the getter method on line 321 (currently it is left as def m).

### comment:26 Changed 4 years ago by arpitdm

• Dependencies changed from #13215 to #13215, #21088, #21131, #21226

### comment:27 in reply to: ↑ 25 ; follow-up: ↓ 28 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

I've added refactored and scrubbed the code to make it cleaner where ever possible. I've created proper inheritances for the classes, and added some methods. And I've added documentation and tests for nearly every method and class.

I've looked through the code in overview, and it looks good! Some comments on the structure:

• Constructor of Gabidulin code: you require both subfield and twist map. I've thought a bit more about it, and I think that the subfield should always be the fixed field of the twist map: if it is smaller than the fixed field, then the code is not MRD, and if it is larger, then the code is not linear. Therefore, I suggest that both twist map and subfield is optional: if twist map is set and subfield is not, then subfield is the fixed field of the twist map; throw an exception if the twist map does not have the fixed_field method. If subfield is given but twist map is not, then default to Frobenius of that field extension. If both twist map and subfield is set, then throw an exception if the twist map has a method fixed_field and it does not return the given subfield.
• You don't have an example using field_extension.
• Your parity_check_matrix is strange. Why not simply return self.dual_code().generator_matrix()?
• What's the point of _vector_space and def vector_space?
• You shouldn't override generator_matrix and random_element.
• What's the point of GabidulinCode.message_space?
• Doc: There's no such thing a as a q-degree of a skew polynomial. The doc should mention that over finite fields, the skew polynomials are very similar to linearized polynomials (isomorphic when the twist map is power-by-q).

There are two issues that remain. One is def parity_evaluation_points where the problem is to find a concrete, non-trivial solution for the equation Ax = 0 where A is the coefficient matrix. I am not sure how to do that in Sage.

Just proceed exactly as you have done, until you get solution_space. Then a non-zero element is solution_space.basis()[0], assuming that solution_space is not empty.

And the second is, finding the right name for the getter method on line 321 (currently it is left as def m).

That should be a method on AbstractLinearRankMetricCode. It could be called field_extension_degree.

Best, Johan

### comment:28 in reply to: ↑ 27 ; follow-up: ↓ 29 Changed 4 years ago by arpitdm

• Constructor of Gabidulin code: you require both subfield and twist map. I've thought a bit more about it, and I think that the subfield should always be the fixed field of the twist map: if it is smaller than the fixed field, then the code is not MRD, and if it is larger, then the code is not linear. Therefore, I suggest that both twist map and subfield is optional: if twist map is set and subfield is not, then subfield is the fixed field of the twist map; throw an exception if the twist map does not have the fixed_field method. If subfield is given but twist map is not, then default to Frobenius of that field extension. If both twist map and subfield is set, then throw an exception if the twist map has a method fixed_field and it does not return the given subfield.

What do I do if both subfield and twist_map are not given?

Also, should I remove the dependency on #21088?

### comment:29 in reply to: ↑ 28 Changed 4 years ago by jsrn

What do I do if both subfield and twist_map are not given?

Then take twist_map to be absolute frobenius, i.e. frobenius wrt. the prime field, and subfield to be the prime field.

Also, should I remove the dependency on #21088?

Oh, yeah I guess you can, since finite fields are already formally supported without #21088.

### comment:30 Changed 12 months ago by jsrn

I've just realised that since #24170, RelativeFiniteFieldExtension is no longer necessary and is available in the much nicer interface F.vector_space().

Indeed, #24279 is in review and removes the RelativeFiniteFieldExtension from sage.coding.

### comment:31 Changed 12 months ago by gh-emes4

• Dependencies changed from #13215, #21088, #21131, #21226 to #13215, #21131, #21226

### comment:32 Changed 12 months ago by gh-emes4

• Branch changed from u/arpitdm/gabidulin_codes to u/gh-emes4/coding/gabidulin
• Commit 72784538cec186b562d27f4ba825b5cd60bd332b deleted

### comment:33 Changed 12 months ago by git

• Commit set to 55128af375b6e4ee5c8becf5f07763153364208c

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. Last 10 new commits:

 ​1e32a0c Super method of LinearRankMetricCode includes basis. ​09a006e Merge 21226 ​62e0ed2 Merge branch 'develop' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into gabidulin ​3917048 Merge branch 'develop' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into rank_metric ​01d9a3d Merge branch 'develop' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into t/28350/abstract_linear_code_no_metric_class ​226ffbf Added no metric to coding documentation index. Moved zero method from AbstractLinearCode. Changed base_field check. ​bd31704 Merge branch 'u/gh-emes4/coding/no_metric' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into rank_metric ​0a115d0 Removed zero method. Added field extension method. ​9d74474 Merge branch 'u/gh-emes4/coding/linear_rank_metric' of git://trac.sagemath.org/sage into gabidulin ​55128af Initial completed, working version. No Metric changes. Documentation and doctests.

### comment:34 Changed 12 months ago by gh-emes4

• Status changed from new to needs_review

I implemented all of the changes from Johan's last comment.

I fixed all the bugs, added documentation and doctests. Changed the code to reflect all the structural changes in the coding module. I tested the GaoDecoder method and it seems to be working.

### comment:36 Changed 2 weeks ago by dimpase

• Authors changed from Arpit Merchant to Arpit Merchant, Marketa Slukova
• Branch changed from u/gh-emes4/coding/gabidulin to u/dimpase/coding/gabidulin
• Commit changed from 55128af375b6e4ee5c8becf5f07763153364208c to 64af63283eff776d226e2e2ecefee1c6d4884581
• Dependencies #13215, #21131, #21226 deleted
• Reviewers set to Dima Pasechnik, Johan Rosenkilde
• Status changed from needs_review to positive_review

New commits:

 ​c68c049 Merge remote-tracking branch 'trac/develop' into u/dimpase/coding/gabidulin ​64af632 python 3 fixes, Skew->Ore renaming

### comment:37 Changed 2 weeks ago by dimpase

a straightforward bump to fix python-3 related stuff. LGTM now.

### comment:38 Changed 8 days ago by vbraun

• Branch changed from u/dimpase/coding/gabidulin to 64af63283eff776d226e2e2ecefee1c6d4884581
• Resolution set to fixed
• Status changed from positive_review to closed

### comment:39 Changed 44 hours ago by chapoton

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