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Linear codes with a few weights have important applications in authentication codes, secret sharing, consumer electronics, etc.. The determination of the parameters such as Hamming weight distributions and complete weight enumerators of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Minglong Qi , Shengwu Xiong , Jingling Yuan , Wenbi Rao , Luo Zhong

In this work we explore a family of metrics over finite fields which respect the support of vectors. We show how these metrics can be obtained from the edge-weighted Hamming cube and, based on this representation we give a description of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Roberto Assis Machado , Marcelo Firer

A conceptual framework involving partition functions of normal factor graphs is introduced, paralleling a similar recent development by Al-Bashabsheh and Mao. The partition functions of dual normal factor graphs are shown to be a Fourier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-23 G. David Forney

The MacWilliams Identity is a well established theorem relating the weight enumerator of a code to the weight enumerator of its dual. The ability to use a known weight enumerator to generate the weight enumerator of another through a simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Izzy Friedlander

A fundamental property of codes, the second-order weight distribution, is proposed to solve the problems such as computing second moments of weight distributions of linear code ensembles. A series of results, parallel to those for weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Shengtian Yang

It is well known that there is a deep relationship between codes and lattices. Concepts from coding theory are related to concepts of lattice theory as, for example, weight enumerators to theta series, MacWilliams identity to Jacobi…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Thanasis Bouganis , Jolanta Marzec-Ballesteros

The structure of a linear block code is pivotal in defining fundamental properties, particularly weight distribution, and code design. In this study, we characterize the Type II structure of polar codewords with weights less than twice the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Drăgoi , Jinhong Yuan

We give a characterization for the binary linear constant weight codes by using the symmetric difference of the supports of the codewords. This characterization gives a correspondence between the set of binary linear constant weight codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Murat Altunbulak , Fatma Altunbulak Aksu

Motivated by the works of Shiromoto [3] and Shi et al. [4], we study the existence of MacWilliams type identities with respect to Lee and Euclidean weight enumerators for linear codes over $\mathbb{Z}_{\ell}.$ Necessary and sufficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Yongsheng Tang , Shixin Zhu , Xiaoshan Kai

The determination of the weight distribution of linear codes has been a fascinating problem since the very beginning of coding theory. There has been a lot of research on weight enumerators of special cases, such as self-dual codes and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Alessio Meneghetti , Marco Pellegrini , Massimiliano Sala

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

The weight distribution of an error correcting code is a crucial statistic in determining it's performance. One key tool for relating the weight of a code to that of it's dual is the MacWilliams Identity, first developed for the Hamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Izzy Friedlander , Thanasis Bouganis , Maximilien Gadouleau

We construct a class of linear codes by choosing a proper defining set and determine their complete weight enumerators and weight enumerators. The results show that they are at most three-weight codes and they are suitable for applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Shudi Yang , Xiangli Kong

In this paper, we define dual codes over arbitrary finite rings with respect to arbitrary bilinear forms and provide a generalization of Hayden's theorem (Bridges, Hall, and Hayden, 1981). Building on this foundation, we introduce the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Futo Takabayashi

We consider (symmetric, non-degenerate) bilinear spaces over a finite field and investigate the properties of their $\ell$-complementary subspaces, i.e., the subspaces that intersect their dual in dimension $\ell$. This concept generalizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Alberto Ravagnani

Upper bounds are given for the weight distribution of binary weakly self-dual codes. To get these new bounds, we introduce a novel method of utilizing unitary operations on Hilbert spaces. This method is motivated by recent progress on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Vwani P. Roychowdhury , Farrokh Vatan

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

Linear codes with a few weights can be applied to communication, consumer electronics and data storage system. In addition, the weight hierarchy of linear codes has many applications such as on the type II wire-tap channel, dealing with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Fei Li , Xiumei Li

Binary linear codes with good parameters have important applications in secret sharing schemes, authentication codes, association schemes, and consumer electronics and communications. In this paper, we construct several classes of binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Deng Tang , Claude Carlet , Zhengchun Zhou

We derive a relationship between two different notions of fidelity (entanglement fidelity and average fidelity) for a completely depolarizing quantum channel. This relationship gives rise to a quantum analog of the MacWilliams identities in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Shor , Raymond Laflamme