A characterization of MMD codes

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1555-1558

  Faldum, Andreas ^a   Willems, Wolfgang ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arcs; Defect of codes; Linear code; Maximum minimum distance; Optimal codes; Ovoids; Weight distribution

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LINEAR CODES; MAXIMUM MINIMUM DISTANCE; WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0032122212     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.681331     Document Type: Article

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