Weight distributions of two classes of linear codes with few weights derived from Weil sums

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Main Authors: Bose, Mrinal Kanti, Singh, Abhay Kumar
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Singh, Abhay Kumar
contents Linear codes with few weights have been a subject of study for many years, as they have applications in secret sharing, authentication codes, association schemes, and strongly regular graphs. In this article, two distinct classes of $p$-ary linear codes are constructed through the selection of two specific defining sets. Their weight distributions are completely determined for each case by detailed calculations on certain Weil sums. The constructed codes are shown to have only two, four, six, eight, and nine nonzero weights under different cases. In particular, we obtained an infinite family of two-weight optimal linear codes with respect to the Griesmer bound. Moreover, we observe that some of our newly constructed codes are minimal under certain conditions.
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spellingShingle Weight distributions of two classes of linear codes with few weights derived from Weil sums
Bose, Mrinal Kanti
Singh, Abhay Kumar
Information Theory
94B05, 11T71, 11T23
Linear codes with few weights have been a subject of study for many years, as they have applications in secret sharing, authentication codes, association schemes, and strongly regular graphs. In this article, two distinct classes of $p$-ary linear codes are constructed through the selection of two specific defining sets. Their weight distributions are completely determined for each case by detailed calculations on certain Weil sums. The constructed codes are shown to have only two, four, six, eight, and nine nonzero weights under different cases. In particular, we obtained an infinite family of two-weight optimal linear codes with respect to the Griesmer bound. Moreover, we observe that some of our newly constructed codes are minimal under certain conditions.
title Weight distributions of two classes of linear codes with few weights derived from Weil sums
topic Information Theory
94B05, 11T71, 11T23
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25578