Degenerate flag varieties in network coding

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Building upon the application of flags to network coding introduced in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b6">6</xref>], we develop a variant of this coding technique that uses degenerate flags. The information set is a metric affine space isometric to the space of upper triangular matrices endowed with the flag rank metric. This suggests the development of a theory for flag rank metric codes in analogy to the rank metric codes used in linear subspace coding.</p>