Galois Hull Dimensions of Gabidulin Codes

Abstract: For a prime power $q$, an integer $m$ and $0\leq e\leq m-1$ we study the $e$-Galois hull dimension of Gabidulin codes $G_k(\boldsymbol{\alpha})$ of length $m$ and dimension $k$ over $\mathbb{F}<em>{q<sup>m}$. Using a self-dual basis $\boldsymbol{\alpha}$ of $\mathbb{F}</em>{q<sup>m}$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$, we first explicitly compute the hull dimension of $G_k(\boldsymbol{\alpha})$. Then a necessary and sufficient condition of $G_k(\boldsymbol{\alpha})$ to be linear complementary dual (LCD), self-orthogonal and self-dual will be provided. We prove the existence of $e$-Galois (where $e=\frac{m}{2}$) self-dual Gabidulin codes of length $m$ for even $q$, which is in contrast to the known fact that Euclidean self-dual Gabidulin codes do not exist for even $q$. As an application, we construct two classes of entangled-assisted quantum error-correcting codes (EAQECCs) whose parameters have more flexibility compared to known codes in this context.