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We discuss a class of binary cyclic codes and their dual codes. The minimum distance is determined using algebraic geometry, and an application of Weil's theorem. We relate the weights appearing in the dual codes to the number of rational…

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We classify 8-divisible binary linear codes with minimum distance 24 and small length. As an application we consider the codes associated to nodal sextics with 65 ordinary double points.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Sascha Kurz

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

In this paper we show the usability of the Gray code with constant weight words for computing linear combinations of codewords. This can lead to a big improvement of the computation time for finding the minimum distance of a code. We have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Nikolay Yankov , Krassimir Enev

We investigate the packing and covering densities of linear and nonlinear binary codes, and establish a number of duality relationships between the packing and covering problems. Specifically, we prove that if almost all codes (in the class…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Gérard Cohen , Alexander Vardy

Binary matrix codes with restricted row and column weights are a desirable method of coded modulation for power line communication. In this work, we construct such matrix codes that are obtained as products of affine codes - cosets of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Yeow Meng Chee , Han Mao Kiah , Punarbasu Purkayastha , Patrick Solé

Determining the weight distribution of a linear code is a classical and fundamental topic in coding theory that has been extensively investigated. Repeated-root cyclic codes, which form a significant subclass of error-correcting codes, have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Wei Zhao , Weixian Li , Shenghao Yang , Fang-Wei Fu , Kenneth W. Shum

Recently, minimal linear codes have been extensively studied due to their applications in secret sharing schemes, secure two-party computations, and so on. Constructing minimal linear codes violating the Ashikhmin-Barg condition and then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Haibo Liu , Xin Guo , Qunying Liao

In this paper, several classes of three-weight codes and two-weight codes for the homogeneous metric over the chain ring $R=\mathbb{F}_p+u\mathbb{F}_p+\cdots +u^{k-1}\mathbb{F}_{p},$ with $u^k=0,$ are constructed, which generalises…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Minjia Shi , Rongsheng Wu , Liqin Qian , Lin Sok , Patrick Solé

In this paper, several classes of three-weight codes and two-weight codes for the homogeneous metric over the chain ring $R=\mathbb{F}_p+u\mathbb{F}_p+\cdots +u^{k-1}\mathbb{F}_{p},$ with $u^k=0,$ are constructed, which generalises…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Minjia Shi , Rongsheng Wu , Liqin Qian , Lin Sok , Patrick Sole

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

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

It has been known for a long time that $t$-designs can be employed to construct both linear and nonlinear codes and that the codewords of a fixed weight in a code may hold a $t$-design. While a lot of progress in the direction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Cunsheng Ding

Cyclic codes are an interesting type of linear codes and have wide applications in communication and storage systems due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. Inspired by the recent work on binary cyclic codes published in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Hai Liu , Chengju Li , Cunsheng Ding

Minimal codewords have applications in decoding linear codes and in cryptography. We study the number of minimal codewords in binary linear codes that arise by appending a unit matrix to the adjacency matrix of a graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Sascha Kurz

A linear code of length $n$ over a finite chain ring $R$ with residue field $\F_q$ is a $R$-submodule of $R^n$. A $R$-linear code is a code over $\F_q$ (not necessarily linear) which is the generalized Gray map image of a linear code over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Cristina Fernández-Córdoba , Sergi Sánchez-Aragón , Mercè Villanueva

BCH codes are an important class of cyclic codes which have applications in satellite communications, DVDs, disk drives, and two-dimensional bar codes. Although BCH codes have been widely studied, their parameters are known for only a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Shixin Zhu , Zhonghua Sun , Xiaoshan Kai

Self-orthogonal codes are an important subclass of linear codes which have nice applications in quantum codes and lattices. It is known that a binary linear code is self-orthogonal if its every codeword has weight divisible by four, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Xiaoru Li , Ziling Heng

As a special class of linear codes, minimal linear codes have important applications in secret sharing and secure two-party computation. Constructing minimal linear codes with new and desirable parameters has been an interesting research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ziling Heng , Cunsheng Ding , Zhengchun Zhou

In this paper, for an even integer $n\geq 4$ and any positive integer $k$ with ${\rm gcd}(n/2,k)={\rm gcd}(n/2-k,2k)=d$ being odd, a class of $p$-ary codes $\mathcal{C}^k$ is defined and their weight distribution is completely determined,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-26 Xiangyong Zeng , Nian Li , Lei Hu