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Determining deep holes is an important open problem in decoding Reed-Solomon codes. It is well known that the received word is trivially a deep hole if the degree of its Lagrange interpolation polynomial equals the dimension of the Reed-Solomon code. For the standard Reed-Solomon codes [p − 1, k] p with p a prime, Cheng and Murray conjectured in 2007 that there is no other deep holes except the trivial ones. In this paper, we show that this conjecture is not true. In fact, we find a new class of deep holes for standard Reed-Solomon codes [q − 1, k] q with q a power of the prime p. Let q ≥ 4 and 2 ≤ k ≤ q − 2. We show that the received word u is a deep hole if its Lagrange interpolation polynomial is the sum of monomial of degree q − 2 and a polynomial of degree at most k − 1. So there are at least 2(q − 1)q k deep holes if k ≤ q − 3.
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Wu, R., Hong, S. On deep holes of standard Reed-Solomon codes. Sci. China Math. 55, 2447–2455 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-012-4499-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-012-4499-3