galois.BCH.generator_poly

property galois.BCH.generator_poly : Poly

The generator polynomial $g (x)$ over $GF (q)$ .

Notes¶

Every codeword $c$ can be represented as a degree- $n$ polynomial $c (x)$ . Each codeword polynomial $c (x)$ is a multiple of $g (x)$ .

Examples¶

Construct a binary narrow-sense $BCH (15, 7)$ code with first consecutive root $α$ .

In [1]: bch = galois.BCH(15, 7); bch
Out[1]: <BCH Code: [15, 7, 5] over GF(2)>

In [2]: bch.generator_poly
Out[2]: Poly(x^8 + x^7 + x^6 + x^4 + 1, GF(2))

In [3]: bch.roots
Out[3]: GF([2, 4, 8, 3], order=2^4)

# Evaluate the generator polynomial at its roots in GF(q^m)
In [4]: bch.generator_poly(bch.roots, field=bch.extension_field)
Out[4]: GF([0, 0, 0, 0], order=2^4)

Construct a binary non-narrow-sense $BCH (15, 7)$ code with first consecutive root $α^{3}$ . Notice the design distance of this code is only 3 and it only has 2 roots in $GF (2^{4})$ .

In [5]: bch = galois.BCH(15, 7, c=3); bch
Out[5]: <BCH Code: [15, 7, 3] over GF(2)>

In [6]: bch.generator_poly
Out[6]: Poly(x^8 + x^7 + x^6 + x^4 + 1, GF(2))

In [7]: bch.roots
Out[7]: GF([8, 3], order=2^4)

# Evaluate the generator polynomial at its roots in GF(q^m)
In [8]: bch.generator_poly(bch.roots, field=bch.extension_field)
Out[8]: GF([0, 0], order=2^4)