Codes defined by forms of degree 2 on Hermitian surfaces and Sørensen's conjecture

DOI10.1016/J.FFA.2006.07.001MaRDI QIDQ2370643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Frédéric A. B. Edoukou

Publication date 29 June 2007

Published in Finite Fields and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612231

zbMATH Keywords

codesHermitian surfacesquadrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39) Applications to coding theory and cryptography of arithmetic geometry (14G50) Geometric methods (including applications of algebraic geometry) applied to coding theory (94B27)

Abstract: We study the functional codes $C_h(X)$ defined by G. Lachaud in $lbrack10brack$ where $Xsubset{mathbbP}^N$ is an algebraic projective variety of degree $d$ and dimension $m$. When $X$ is a hermitian surface in $PG(3,q)$, S{o}rensen in lbrack 15 brack, has conjectured for $hlet$ (where $q=t^2$) the following result : ${\displaystyle }$# X_{Z(f)}(mathbb{F}_{q}) le h(t^{3}+ t^{2}-t)+t+1${\displaystyle }$ which should give the exact value of the minimum distance of the functional code $C_h(X)$. In this paper we resolve the conjecture of S{o}rensen in the case of quadrics (i.e. $h=2$), we show the geometrical structure of the minimum weight codewords and their number; we also estimate the second weight and the geometrical structure of the codewords reaching this second weight

Review text

The author considers codes defined by polynomials of degree 2 on the set of points of an Hermitian surface. The key remark is that the weight of a codeword can be computed by studying the intersection between a Hermitian surface and a quadric. The core of the paper is the analysis of the cardinalities of the configurations which might thus arise. A nice result is the description of all the codewords of minimum weight and second minimum weight for the codes under consideration. This also shows that in the case under consideration Sørensen's conjecture [\textit{A. B. Sørensen}, Rational points on hypersurfaces, Reed-Muller codes and algebraic-geometric codes, PhD thesis, Aarhus, Denmark (1991)] on the minimum weight is satisfied.

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