TY - JOUR AU - Plaza Martín, Francisco José AU - Iglesias Curto, José Ignacio AU - Serrano Sotelo, Gloria PY - 2013 SN - 0018-9448 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10366/159317 AB - [EN]We show that the free distance, as a function on a space parameterizing a family of convolutional codes, is a lower semicontinuous function and that, therefore, the property of being maximum distance separable (MDS) is an open condition. For a... LA - eng PB - IEEE TI - On the Construction of 1-D MDS Convolutional Goppa Codes DO - 10.1109/TIT.2013.2251926 T2 - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory VL - 59 M2 - 4615 ER -