On the splitting of places in a tower of function fields meeting the Drinfeld-Vladut bound. - Ilia Aleshnikov; P. Vijay Kumar; Kenneth W. Shum; Henning Stichtenoth (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2001)

A low-complexity algorithm for the construction of algebraic-geometric codes better than the Gilbert-Varshamov bound. - Kenneth W. Shum; Ilia Aleshnikov; P. Vijay Kumar; Henning Stichtenoth; Vinay Deolalikar (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2001)