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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

Generalized pair weights of linear codes are generalizations of minimum symbol-pair weights, which were introduced by Liu and Pan \cite{LP} recently. Generalized pair weights can be used to characterize the ability of protecting information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hongwei Liu , Xu Pan

Cyclic codes are a subclass of linear codes and have wide applications in consumer electronics, data storage systems, and communication systems due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. Cyclic codes with many zeros and their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-25 Zhengchun Zhou , Aixian Zhang , Cunsheng Ding , Maosheng Xiong

In this paper, we introduce generalized extended Hamming codes over Galois rings $GR(2^n,m)$ of characteristic $2^n$ with extension degree $m$. Furthermore we prove that the minimum Hamming weight of generalized extended Hamming codes over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Muhammad Ilyas , Mieko Yamada

A constant weight binary code consists of $n$-bit binary codewords, each with exactly $w$ bits equal to 1, such that any two codewords are at least Hamming distance $d$ apart. $A(n,d,w)$ is the maximum size of a constant weight binary code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Christopher D. Rosin

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dongmei Huang , Qunying Liao , Sihem Mesnager , Gaohua Tang , Haode Yan

We consider the geometric problem of determining the maximum number $n_q(r,h,f;s)$ of $(h-1)$-spaces in the projective space $\operatorname{PG}(r-1,q)$ such that each subspace of codimension $f$ does contain at most $s$ elements. In coding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jozefien D'haeseleer , Sascha Kurz

An important family of codes for data storage systems, cryptography, consumer electronics, and network coding for error control in digital communications are the so-called cyclic codes. This kind of linear codes are also important due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Gerardo Vega , Félix Hernández

Usually, it is difficult to determine the weight distribution of an irreducible cyclic code. In this paper, we discuss the case when an irreducible cyclic code has the maximal number of distinct nonzero weights and give a necessary and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Chunming Tang , Yanfeng Qi , Maozhi Xu , Baocheng Wang , Yixian Yang

The size of the Hamming distance spectrum of a code has received great attention in recent research. The main objective of this paper is to extend these significant theories to the $b$-symbol distance spectrum. We examine this question for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Hongwei Zhu , Shitao Li , Minjia Shi , Shu-Tao Xia , Patrick Sole

In coding theory, a very interesting problem (but at the same time, a very difficult one) is to determine the weight distribution of a given code. This problem is even more interesting for cyclic codes, and this is so, mainly because they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Gerardo Vega

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

The aim of this work is to algebraically describe the relative generalized Hamming weights of evaluation codes. We give a lower bound for these weights in terms of a footprint bound. We prove that this bound can be sharp. We compute the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Delio Jaramillo-Velez , Hiram H. López , Yuriko Pitones

The $r$-th generalized Hamming metric and the $b$-symbol metric are two different generalizations of Hamming metric. The former is used on the wire-tap channel of Type II, and the latter is motivated by the limitations of the reading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Minjia Shi , Hongwei Zhu , Tor Helleseth

We study constacyclic codes, of length $np^s$ and $2np^s$, that are generated by the polynomials $(x^n + \gamma)^{\ell}$ and $(x^n - \xi)^i(x^n + \xi)^j$\ respectively, where $x^n + \gamma$, $x^n - \xi$ and $x^n + \xi$ are irreducible over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Hakan Ozadam , Ferruh Ozbudak

Constant weight codes (CWCs) and constant composition codes (CCCs) are two important classes of codes that have been studied extensively in both combinatorics and coding theory for nearly sixty years. In this paper we show that for {\it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Miao Liu , Chong Shangguan

Very recently, Heng et al. studied a family of extended primitive cyclic codes. It was shown that the supports of all codewords with any fixed nonzero Hamming weight of this code supporting 2-designs. In this paper, we study this family of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Haode Yan , Yanan Yin

In \cite{shi2022few-weight}, Shi and Li studied $\mathcal{C}_D$-codes over the ring $\mathcal{R}:=\mathbb{F}_2[x,y]/\langle x^2, y^2, xy-yx\rangle$ and their binary Gray images, where $D$ is derived using certain simplicial complexes. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ankit Yadav , Ritumoni Sarma , Anuj Kumar Bhagat

Binary constant-weight codes have been extensively studied, due to both their numerous applications and to their theoretical significance. In particular, constant-weight codes have been proposed for error correction in store and forward. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Maximilien Gadouleau

A linear code $C$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$ is called $\Delta$-divisible if the Hamming weights $\operatorname{wt}(c)$ of all codewords $c \in C$ are divisible by $\Delta$. The possible effective lengths of $q^r$-divisible codes have been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Sascha Kurz