Polar codes, discovered by Arikan [] in 2009, form a class of codes which provably achieve the capacity for a wide range of channels. Construction, encoding, and decoding of these codes are based on the phenomenon of channel polarization. In this chapter, we introduce polar codes from an algebraic point of view.
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