How to Find New Characteristic-Dependent Linear Rank Inequalities using Secret Sharing

Determining information ratios of access structures is an important problem in secret sharing. Information inequalities and linear rank inequalities play an important role for proving bounds. Characteristic-dependent linear rank inequalities are rank inequalities which are true over vector spaces with specific field characteristic. In this paper, using ideas of secret sharing, we show a theorem that produces characteristic-dependent linear rank inequalities. These inequalities can be used for getting lower bounds on information ratios in linear secret sharing.