An improved Serre bound for elementary Abelian extensions of F q(x) and the generalized Hamming weights of duals of BCH codes

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1291-1293

  Moreno, Oscar ^a,b   Pedersen, J P ^c   Polemi, D ^d  

^a IEEE   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

BCH codes; Elementary Abelian extensions; Generalized Hamming weights

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645080383     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.669413     Document Type: Article

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