On generalized Hamming weights of BCH codes

  • Authors:

  • G. van der Geer;M. van der Vlugt

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculteit Wiskunde en Inf., Amsterdam Univ.;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Introduces methods from algebraic geometry to determine generalized Hamming weights of BCH codes. As an application of these methods the authors determine for primitive 2- (resp., 3-) error correcting BCH codes the third (resp., the second) generalized Hamming weight