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Geometric representation of binary codes and computation of weight enumerators

Combinatorics 2010-08-23 v2

Abstract

For every linear binary code CC, we construct a geometric triangular configuration Δ\Delta so that the weight enumerator of CC is obtained by a simple formula from the weight enumerator of the cycle space of Δ\Delta. The triangular configuration Δ\Delta thus provides a geometric representation of CC which carries its weight enumerator. This is the initial step in the suggestion by M. Loebl, to extend the theory of Pfaffian orientations from graphs to general linear binary codes. Then we carry out also the second step by constructing, for every triangular configuration Δ\Delta, a triangular configuration Δ\Delta' and a bijection between the cycle space of Δ\Delta and the set of the perfect matchings of Δ\Delta'.

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@article{arxiv.0805.1742,
  title  = {Geometric representation of binary codes and computation of weight enumerators},
  author = {Pavel Rytíř},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.1742},
  year   = {2010}
}

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16 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Advances in Applied Mathematics, v2: major conceptual changes

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