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There is a nice combinatorial formula of P. Beelen and M. Datta for the $r$-th generalized Hamming weight of an affine cartesian code. Using this combinatorial formula we give an easy to evaluate formula to compute the $r$-th generalized…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Manuel Gonzalez-Sarabia , Delio Jaramillo , Rafael H. Villarreal

Rank weights and generalized rank weights have been proven to characterize error and erasure correction, and information leakage in linear network coding, in the same way as Hamming weights and generalized Hamming weights describe classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

Which integer sequences are sequences of generalized weights of a linear code? In this paper, we answer this question for linear block codes, rank-metric codes, and more generally for sum-rank metric codes. We do so under an existence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Elisa Gorla , Elisa Lorenzo García , Umberto Martínez-Peñas , Flavio Salizzoni

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

We explicitly determine all the relative generalized Hamming weights of affine Cartesian codes using the notion of footprints and results from extremal combinatorics. This generalizes the previous works on the determination of relative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Mrinmoy Datta

We develop an algebraic theory of supports for $R$-linear codes of fixed length, where $R$ is a finite commutative unitary ring. A support naturally induces a notion of generalized weights and allows one to associate a monomial ideal to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Elisa Gorla , Alberto Ravagnani

We characterize the generator matrix in standard form of generalized Gabidulin codes. The parametrization we get for the non-systematic part of this matrix coincides with the $q$-analogue of generalized Cauchy matrices, leading to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Alessandro Neri

We define generalized Hamming weights for almost affine codes. We show how various aspects and applications of generalized Hamming weights for linear codes, such as Wei duality, generalized Kung's bound, profiles, connection to wire-tap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Trygve Johnsen , Hugues Verdure

Universal security over a network with linear network coding has been intensively studied. However, previous linear codes used for this purpose were linear over a larger field than that used on the network. In this work, we introduce new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , Ryutaroh Matsumoto

In this paper, we develop a geometric framework for matrix rank-metric codes based on generator tensors and their slice spaces. To every nondegenerate matrix rank-metric code, we associate two systems, which translate metric properties of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Gianira N. Alfarano , Martino Borello , Alessandro Neri

Studying the generalized Hamming weights of linear codes is a significant research area within coding theory, as it provides valuable structural information about the codes and plays a crucial role in determining their performance in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Wei Lu , Qingyao Wang , Xiaoqiang Wang , Dabin Zheng

In this paper, generalized metrics mean metrics taking values in general linearly ordered Abelian groups. Using the Hahn fields, we first prove that for every generalized metric space, if the set of the Archimedean equivalence classes of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Yoshito Ishiki

Rank-metric codes, defined as sets of matrices over a finite field with the rank distance, have gained significant attention due to their applications in network coding and connections to diverse mathematical areas. Initially studied by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Alessandro Neri , Ferdinando Zullo

The generalized Hamming weights of a linear code have been extensively studied since Wei first use them to characterize the cryptography performance of a linear code over the wire-tap channel of type II. In this paper, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Gaopeng Jian

We introduce the notion of sum-matroids and show its association with sum-rank metric codes. As a consequence, some results for sum-rank metric codes by Mart\'inez-Pe\~nas are generalized for sum-matroids. The sum-matroids generalize the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Avijit Panja , Rakhi Pratihar , Tovohery Hajatiana Randrianarisoa

In this paper, we present the harmonic generalizations of well-known polynomials of codes over finite fields, namely the higher weight enumerators and the extended weight enumerators, and we derive the correspondences between these weight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Thomas Britz , Himadri Shekhar Chakraborty , Tsuyoshi Miezaki

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

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

Firstly, we give a formula on the generalized Hamming weight of linear codes constructed generically by defining sets. Secondly, by choosing properly the defining set we obtain a class of cyclotomic linear codes and then present two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Fei Li

In this article, we investigate the decoding of the rank metric Reed--Muller codes introduced by Augot, Couvreur, Lavauzelle and Neri in 2021. These codes are defined from Abelian Galois extensions extending the construction of Gabidulin…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Alain Couvreur , Rakhi Pratihar