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Self-dual binary linear codes have been extensively studied and classified for length n <= 40. However, little attention has been paid to linear codes that coincide with their orthogonal complement when the underlying inner product is not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Patrick King , Mikhail Kotchetov

An explicit formula for a weight enumerator of linear-congruence codes is provided. This extends the work of Bibak and Milenkovic [IEEE ISIT (2018) 431-435] addressing the binary case to the non-binary case. Furthermore, the extension…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Taro Sakurai

Linear codes with a few weights can be applied to communication, consumer electronics and data storage system. In addition, the weight hierarchy of linear codes has many applications such as on the type II wire-tap channel, dealing with…

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

We provide the first tensor network method for computing quantum weight enumerator polynomials in the most general form. If a quantum code has a known tensor network construction of its encoding map, our method is far more efficient, and in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 ChunJun Cao , Michael J. Gullans , Brad Lackey , Zitao Wang

We develop an algorithm for computing the weight distribution of a linear $[n,k]$ code over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. We represent the codes by their characteristic vector with respect to a given generator matrix and a special type of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Iliya Bouyukliev , Stefka Bouyuklieva , Tatsuya Maruta , Paskal Piperkov

A fundamental property of codes, the second-order weight distribution, is proposed to solve the problems such as computing second moments of weight distributions of linear code ensembles. A series of results, parallel to those for weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Shengtian Yang

Recently, linear codes constructed from defining sets have been studied extensively. They may have nice parameters if the defining set is chosen properly. Let $ m >2$ be a positive integer. For an odd prime $ p $, let $ r=p^m $ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Shudi Yang , Xiangli Kong , Chunming Tang

Linear codes have been an interesting topic in both theory and practice for many years. In this paper, for an odd prime $p$, we present the explicit complete weight enumerator of a family of $p$-ary linear codes constructed with defining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Shudi Yang , Zheng-An Yao

In the theory of error-correcting codes, the minimum weight and the weight enumerator play a crucial role in evaluating the error-correcting capacity. In this paper, by viewing the weight enumerator as a quasi-polynomial, we reduce the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Koji Imamura , Norihiro Nakashima , Takuya Saito

Past few years have seen an extensive use of high-density RAM chips with wide I/O data (e.g., 16, 32, 64 bits) in computer memory systems. These chips are highly vulnerable to a special type of byte error, called an $m$-spotty byte error,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-14 Amit K. Sharma , Anuradha Sharma

Given a binary nonlinear code, we provide a deterministic algorithm to compute its weight and distance distribution, and in particular its minimum weight and its minimum distance, which takes advantage of fast Fourier techniques. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Emanuele Bellini , Massimiliano Sala

Motivated by the works of Shiromoto [3] and Shi et al. [4], we study the existence of MacWilliams type identities with respect to Lee and Euclidean weight enumerators for linear codes over $\mathbb{Z}_{\ell}.$ Necessary and sufficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Yongsheng Tang , Shixin Zhu , Xiaoshan Kai

Linear codes have been an interesting topic in both theory and practice for many years. In this paper, for an odd prime $p$, we determine the explicit complete weight enumerators of two classes of linear codes over $\mathbb{F}_p$ and they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Shudi Yang , Zheng-An Yao

The MacWilliams identity, which relates the weight distribution of a code to the weight distribution of its dual code, is useful in determining the weight distribution of codes. In this paper, we derive the MacWilliams identity for linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-28 Maximilien Gadouleau , Zhiyuan Yan

This paper examines the $w$-weight enumerators of weights $w$ with maximal symmetry over finite chain rings and matrix rings over finite fields. In many cases, including the homogeneous weight, the MacWilliams identities for $w$-weight…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Jay A. Wood

We give a new structural development of harmonic polynomials on Hamming space, and harmonic weight enumerators of binary linear codes, that parallels one approach to harmonic polynomials on Euclidean space and weighted theta functions of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Noam D. Elkies , Scott Duke Kominers

We introduce a general class of codes which includes several well-known classes of deletion/insertion correcting codes as special cases. For example, the Helberg code, the Levenshtein code, the Varshamov--Tenengolts code, and most variants…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Khodakhast Bibak , Olgica Milenkovic

Weight enumerators are important tools for deciphering the algebraic structure of the related code spaces and for understanding group actions on these spaces. Our study focuses on symmetrized weight enumerators of pairs of Type II codes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-05 A. K. M. Selim Reza , Manabu Oura , Nur Hamid

Binary codes are widely used to represent the data due to their small storage and efficient computation. However, there exists an ambiguity problem that lots of binary codes share the same Hamming distance to a query. To alleviate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu

The determination of the weight distribution of linear codes has been a fascinating problem since the very beginning of coding theory. There has been a lot of research on weight enumerators of special cases, such as self-dual codes and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Alessio Meneghetti , Marco Pellegrini , Massimiliano Sala