Marco Baldi

Simulations of structure formation in interacting dark energy cosmologies (2009)

Baldi, Marco

The evidence in favor of a dark energy component dominating the Universe, and driving its presently accelerated expansion, has progressively grown during the last decade of cosmological observations....

N-body simulations of coupled dark energy cosmologies (2008)

Baldi, Marco, Pettorino, Valeria, Robbers, Georg, Springel, Volker

If the accelerated expansion of the Universe at the present epoch is driven by a dark energy scalar field, there may well be a non-trivial coupling between the dark energy and the cold dark matter...

On the Usage of LDPC Codes in the McEliece Cryptosystem (2008)

Marco Baldi

Abstract—In this paper, a new variant of the McEliece cryptosystem, based on Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes, is studied. Random-based techniques allow to design large families of LDPC codes...

A Simple Scheme for Belief Propagation Decoding of BCH and RS Codes in Multimedia Transmissions (2008)

Marco Baldi, Franco Chiaraluce

Classic linear block codes, like Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) and Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, are widely used in multimedia transmissions, but their soft-decision decoding still represents an open...

A Simple Scheme for Belief Propagation Decoding of BCH and RS Codes in Multimedia Transmissions (2008)

Marco Baldi, Franco Chiaraluce

Classic linear block codes, like Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) and Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, are widely used in multimedia transmissions, but their soft-decision decoding still represents an open...

Exact and Approximate Expressions for the Probability of Undetected Error of Varshamov-Tenengol'ts Codes (2007)

Baldi, Marco, Chiaraluce, Franco, Kløve, Torleiv

Computation of the undetected error probability for error correcting codes over the Z-channel is an important issue, explored only in part in previous literature. In this paper we consider the case...

LDPC codes in the McEliece cryptosystem: attacks and countermeasures (2007)

Baldi, Marco

The McEliece cryptosystem is a public-key cryptosystem based on coding theory that has successfully resisted cryptanalysis for thirty years. The original version, based on Goppa codes, is able to...

Growing Matter (2007)

Amendola, Luca, Baldi, Marco, Wetterich, Christof

We investigate quintessence cosmologies with a matter component consisting of particles with an increasing mass. While negligible in early cosmology, the appearance of a growing matter component has...

Super Inflation (2005)

Baldi, Marco, Finelli, Fabio, Matarrese, Sabino

Inflation may have been driven by a component which violated the Null-Energy Condition, thereby leading to {\it super inflation}. We provide the formalism to study cosmological perturbations when...