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Currently known secondary construction techniques for linear codes mainly include puncturing, shortening, and extending. In this paper, we propose a novel method for the secondary construction of linear codes based on their weight…

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Cyclic codes with a few weights are very useful in the design of frequency hopping sequences and the development of secret sharing schemes. In this paper, we mainly use Gauss sums to represent the Hamming weights of a general construction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Ziling Heng , Qin Yue

A cyclic codes of length $n$ over the rings $Z_{2^{m}}$ of integer of modulo $2^{m}$ is a linear code with property that if the codeword $(c_0,c_1,...,c_{n-1})\in \mathcal{C}$ then the cyclic shift $(c_1,c_2,...,c_0)\in \mathcal{C}$.…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2011-12-19 Xiongqing Tan

In this paper, we discuss the generalized Hamming weights of a class of linear codes associated with non-degenerate quadratic forms. In order to do so, we study the quadratic forms over subspaces of finite field and obtain some interesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Fei Li

Cyclic codes are a subclass of linear codes and have applications in consumer electronics, data storage systems, and communication systems as they have efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. In this paper, a class of three-weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Zhengchun Zhou , Cunsheng Ding

For the past decades, linear codes with few weights have been widely studied, since they have applications in space communications, data storage and cryptography. In this paper, a class of binary linear codes is constructed and their weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Fei Li , Yang Yan , Qiuyan Wang , Tongjiang Yan

The weighted-Hamming metric generalizes the Hamming metric by assigning different weights to blocks of coordinates. It is well-suited for applications such as coding over independent parallel channels, each of which has a different level of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sebastian Bitzer , Alberto Ravagnani , Violetta Weger

The study of the generalized Hamming weight of linear codes is a significant research topic in coding theory as it conveys the structural information of the codes and determines their performance in various applications. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Chao Liu , Dabin Zheng , Wei Lu , Xiaoqiang Wang

Recently, the weight distributions of the duals of the cyclic codes with two zeros have been obtained for several cases. In this paper we use the method developed before to solve one more special case. We make extensive use of standard…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-17 Maosheng Xiong

Cyclic codes have efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. The decoding error probability and the undetected error probability are usually bounded by or given from the weight distributions of the codes. Most researches are about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Xiaogang Liu , Yuan Luo

Linear codes with a few weights have been widely investigated in recent years. In this paper, we mainly use Gauss sums to represent the Hamming weights of a class of $q$-ary linear codes under some certain conditions, where $q$ is a power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Ziling Heng , Qin Yue

In this paper, the cyclic codes of length $n$, where $n$ is odd with certain restrictions, over a finite chain ring $R$, have been studied using the structure of group algebra approach. The primitive idempotents of $RG$ of a finite cyclic…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Seema Antil , Gurleen Kaur , Manju Khan

The generalized Hamming weight of linear codes is a natural generalization of the minimum Hamming distance. They convey the structural information of a linear code and determine its performance in various applications, and have become one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Chao Liu , Dabin Zheng , Xiaoqiang Wang

Due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms cyclic codes, a subclass of linear codes, have applications in consumer electronics, data storage systems, and communication systems. In this paper, Dickson polynomials of the first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Cunsheng Ding

Cyclic codes are an important class of linear codes, whose weight distribution have been extensively studied. Most previous results obtained so far were for cyclic codes with no more than three zeroes. Inspired by the works…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Maosheng Xiong , Nian Li , Zhengchun Zhou , Cunsheng Ding

In this article, we show explicitly all possible weight enumerators for every irreducible cyclic code of length $n$ over a finite field $\mathbb F_q$, in the case which each prime divisor of $n$ is also a divisor of $q-1$.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-12 F. E. Brochero Martínez , C. R. Giraldo Vergara

The cyclic codes with parity check polynomial the reciprocal of the characteristic polynomial of the Fibonacci recurrence over a prime finite field are shown to have either one weight or two weights. When these codes are irreducible cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Minjia Shi , Zhongyi Zhang , Patrick Sole

Linear codes with a few weights have important applications in authentication codes, secret sharing, consumer electronics, etc.. The determination of the parameters such as Hamming weight distributions and complete weight enumerators of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Minglong Qi , Shengwu Xiong , Jingling Yuan , Wenbi Rao , Luo Zhong

In this expository paper we show how one can, in a uniform way, calculate the weight distributions of some well-known binary cyclic codes. The codes are related to certain families of curves, and the weight distributions are related to the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-06 René Schoof

Upper bounds are given for the weight distribution of binary weakly self-dual codes. To get these new bounds, we introduce a novel method of utilizing unitary operations on Hilbert spaces. This method is motivated by recent progress on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Vwani P. Roychowdhury , Farrokh Vatan