On weights in duadic Abelian codes

  • Authors:
  • Qiaoliang Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha PRC and Center for Combinatorics, The Key Laboratory of Pure Mathematics and Combinatorics of Ministry of Education, Nankai University, ...

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this note, we prove that if C is a duadic binary abelian code with splitting µ = µ-1 and the minimum odd weight of C satisfies d2 - d + 1 ≠ n, then d(d-1) ≥ n + 11. We show by an example that this bound is sharp. A series of open problems on this subject are proposed.