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About Various MacWilliams Identities for Codes over Finite Commutative Rings, II

Date:
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Location:
945 POT
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Dr. Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky

MacWilliams identities play a prominent role in algebraic coding theory because they tell how certain information about a code, encoded in enumerators,  can be used to deduce information about the dual code. We will provide a unified approach to MacWilliams identities for various weight enumerators of linear block codes over Frobenius rings.  Such enumerators count the number of codewords having a pre-specified property, and MacWilliams identities yield a transformation between such an enumerator and the corresponding enumerator of the dual code. All identities can be derived from a MacWilliams identity for the full weight enumerator using the concept of an F-partition, as introduced by Zinoviev and Ericson (1996).



The talk will be self-contained, and only basic knowledge of linear algebra and introductory ring theory will be required.