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On the small weight codewords of the functional codes C_2(Q), Q a non-singular quadric

Algebraic Geometry 2009-01-28 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We study the small weight codewords of the functional code C_2(Q), with Q a non-singular quadric of PG(N,q). We prove that the small weight codewords correspond to the intersections of Q with the singular quadrics of PG(N,q) consisting of two hyperplanes. We also calculate the number of codewords having these small weights.

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@article{arxiv.0901.4205,
  title  = {On the small weight codewords of the functional codes C_2(Q), Q a non-singular quadric},
  author = {Frédéric Edoukou and Anja Hallez and François Rodier and Leo Storme},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.4205},
  year   = {2009}
}