Title :
Weights Modulo a Prime Power in Divisible Codes and a Related Bound
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
Abstract :
In this paper, we generalize the theorem given by R. M. Wilson about weights modulo pt in linear codes to a divisible code version. Using a similar idea, we give an upper bound for the dimension of a divisible code by some divisibility property of its weight enumerator modulo pe. We also prove that this bound implies Ward´s bound for divisible codes. Moreover, we see that in some cases, our bound gives better results than Ward´s bound
Keywords :
linear codes; Ward´s bound; divisible code; linear code; weight enumerator modulo; Linear code; Mathematics; Polynomials; Sufficient conditions; Upper bound; Bounds; divisible codes; weight enumerators;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIT.2006.881708