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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

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

Linear codes with few weights have applications in secret sharing, authentication codes, association schemes and strongly regular graphs. In this paper, several classes of $t$-weight linear codes over ${\mathbb F}_{q}$ are presented with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhao Hu , Mingxiu Qiu , Nian Li , Xiaohu Tang , Liwei Wu

Linear codes are widely studied due to their applications in communication, cryptography, quantum codes, distributed storage and many other fields. In this paper, we use the trace and norm functions over finite fields to construct a family…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ziling Heng , Mengjie Yang , Yang Ming

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

Coding Theory where the alphabet is identified with the elements of a ring or a module has become an important research topic over the last 30 years. Such codes over rings had important applications and many interesting mathematical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Niklas Gassner , Marcus Greferath , Joachim Rosenthal , Violetta Weger

In the past few years, linear codes with few weights and their weight analysis have been widely studied. In this paper, we further investigate a class of two-weight or three-weight linear codes from defining sets and determine their weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Dabin Zheng , Qing Zhao , Xiaoqiang Wang , Yan Zhang

Cyclic codes have attracted a lot of research interest for decades as they have efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. In this paper, for an odd prime $p$, the weight distributions of two classes of $p$-ary cyclic codes are completely…

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

Recently some mixed alphabet rings are involved in constructing few-Lee weight additive codes with optimal or minimal Gray images using suitable defining sets or down-sets. Inspired by these works, we choose the mixed alphabet ring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Pramod Kumar Kewat , Nilay Kumar Mondal

Two-weight linear codes are linear codes in which any nonzero codeword can have only two possible distinct weights. Those in the Hamming metric have proven to be very interesting for their connections with authentication codes, association…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ferdinando Zullo , Olga Polverino , Paolo Santonastaso , John Sheekey

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

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

Let $p$ be a prime, and let $N$ be a positive integer such that $p$ is a primitive root modulo $N$. Define $q = p^e$, where $e = \phi(N)$, and let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be the finite field of order $q$ with $\mathbb{F}_p$ as its prime subfield.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kaimin Cheng , Du Sheng

In this manuscript, we construct a class of projective three-weight linear codes and two classes of projective four-weight linear codes over F2 from the defining sets construction, and determine their weight distributions by using additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qunying Liao , Zhaohui Zhang , Peipei Zheng

Few-weight codes have been constructed and studied for many years, since their fascinating relations to finite geometries, strongly regular graphs and Boolean functions. Simplex codes are one-weight Griesmer $[\frac{q^k-1}{q-1},k…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xu Pan , Hao Chen , Hongwei Liu , Shengwei Liu

Let $p$ be a prime number. Irreducible cyclic codes of length $p^2-1$ and dimension $2$ over the integers modulo $p^h$ are shown to have exactly two nonzero Hamming weights. The construction uses the Galois ring of characteristic $p^h$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Minjia Shi , Tor Helleseth , Patrick Sole

Let $m\geq 3$ be an odd integer and $p$ be an odd prime. % with $p-1=2^rh$, where $h$ is an odd integer. In this paper, many classes of three-weight cyclic codes over $\mathbb{F}_{p}$ are presented via an examination of the condition for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Chunlei Li , Nian Li , Tor Helleseth , Cunsheng Ding

It is well known that the problem of determining the weight distributions of families of cyclic codes is, in general, notoriously difficult. An even harder problem is to find characterizations of families of cyclic codes in terms of their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Gerardo Vega

In this study, linear codes having their Lee-weight distributions over the semi-local ring $\mathbb{F}_{q}+u\mathbb{F}_{q}$ with $u^{2}=1$ are constructed using the defining set and Gauss sums for an odd prime $q $. Moreover, we derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Pavan Kumar , Noor Mohammad Khan

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 family of $p$-ary cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Zhengchun Zhou , Cunsheng Ding , Jinquan Luo , Aixian Zhang