An Infinite Family of 3-Designs from Preparata Codes over Z4

Designs, Codes, and Cryptography

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-181

  Helleseth, Tor ^a   Kumar, P Vijay ^b   Yang, Kyeongcheol ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Linear codes over Z4; Preparata codes; t designs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347645368     PISSN: 09251022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008363617109     Document Type: Article

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