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Boolean functions have very nice applications in cryptography and coding theory, which have led to a lot of research focusing on their applications. The objective of this paper is to construct binary linear codes with few weights from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Xiaoqiang Wang , Dabin Zheng , Yan Zhang

It is known that for binary codes one can use Gr\"obner bases to obtain a subset of codewords of minimal support that can be used to determine the second generalized Hamming weight of the code. In this paper we establish conditions on a…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Hernán de Alba , Cecilia Martínez-Reyes

We provide a combinatorial construction for linear codes attaining the maximum possible number of distinct weights. We then introduce the related problem of determining the existence of linear codes with an arbitrary number of distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Alessio Meneghetti

Linear codes have diverse applications in secret sharing schemes, secure two-party computation, association schemes, strongly regular graphs, authentication codes and communication. There are a large number of linear codes with few weights…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ahmet Sınak

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 with a few weights are very important in coding theory and have attracted a lot of attention. In this paper, we present a construction of $q$-ary linear codes from trace and norm functions over finite fields. The weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Ziling Heng , Qin Yue

The Generalized Hamming weights and their relative version, which generalize the minimum distance of a linear code, are relevant to numerous applications, including coding on the wire-tap channel of type II, $t$-resilient functions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Eduardo Camps-Moreno , Hiram H. López , Gretchen L. Matthews , Rodrigo San-José

We provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamental structural properties of weighted projective Reed-Muller codes. We give a recursive construction for these codes, under some conditions for the weights, and we use it to derive bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jade Nardi , Rodrigo San-José

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

This paper examines linear binary codes capable of correcting one or more errors. For the single-error-correcting case, it is shown that the Hamming bound is achieved by a constructive method, and an exact expression for the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Timofei Izhitskii

The generalized Hamming weights (GHWs) of linear codes are fundamental parameters, the knowledge of which is of great interest in many applications. However, to determine the GHWs of linear codes is difficult in general. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Maosheng Xiong , Shuxing Li , Gennian Ge

The puncturing and shortening technique are two important approaches to constructing new linear codes from old ones. In the past 70 years, a lot of progress on the puncturing technique has been made, and many works on punctured linear codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yang Liu , Cunsheng Ding , Chunming Tang

Linear codes with few weights have applications in secrete sharing, authentication codes, association schemes, and strongly regular graphs. In this paper, several classes of $p$-ary linear codes with two or three weights are constructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Zhengchun Zhou , Nian Li , Cuiling Fan , Tor Helleseth

Linear codes with a few weights have many nice applications including combinatorial design, distributed storage system, secret sharing schemes and so on. In this paper, we construct two families of linear codes with a few weights based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ziling Heng , Xinran Wang , Xiaoru Li

The objective of this paper is to construct a class of linear codes with two nonzero weights and three nonzero weights by using the general trace functions, which weight distributions has been determined. These linear codes contain some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Li Liu , Xianhong Xie , Lanqiang Li

In this paper, we present a construction of linear codes over $\f_{2^t}$ from Boolean functions, which is a generalization of Ding's method \cite[Theorem 9]{Ding15}. Based on this construction, we give two classes of linear codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Can Xiang , Keqin Feng , Chunming Tang

Minimal rank-metric codes or, equivalently, linear cutting blocking sets are characterized in terms of the second generalized rank weight, via their connection with evasiveness properties of the associated $q$-system. Using this result, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Daniele Bartoli , Giuseppe Marino , Alessandro Neri

A classical method of constructing a linear code over $\gf(q)$ with a $t$-design is to use the incidence matrix of the $t$-design as a generator matrix over $\gf(q)$ of the code. This approach has been extensively investigated in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Cunsheng Ding

In this article, we present two new approaches to construct minimal linear codes of dimension $n+1$ over $\mathbb{F}_{3}$ using characteristic and ternary functions. We also obtain the weight distributions of these constructed minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Wajid M. Shaikh , Rupali S. Jain , B. Surendranath Reddy , Bhagyashri S. Patil , Sahar M. A. Maqbol

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