The Star Product of Uniformly Random Codes

Abstract

We consider the problem of determining the expected dimension of the star product of two uniformly random linear codes that are not necessarily of the same dimension. We use a correspondence between the star product and the evaluation of bilinear forms to provide an explicit lower bound on the expected star product dimension. We prove that the expected dimension asymptotically reaches its maximum possible value as the field size increases. Furthermore, we show that the same maximal dimension is achieved asymptotically as the code dimensions increase, subject to a condition bounding their relative growth rates. We also analyze the variance of the star product dimension, providing explicit asymptotic upper bounds. Finally, we discuss the implications of these results for private information retrieval, secure distributed matrix multiplication, quantum error correction, and cryptanalysis.