MACWILLIAMS IDENTITIES OVER $M_n\times_s(Z_4)$ WITH RESPECT TO THE RT METRIC

  • Zhu, Shi-Xin (Department of Applied Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology) ;
  • Xu, He-Qian (Department of Applied Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology)
  • Published : 2008.01.30

Abstract

There has been a recent growth of interest in codes with respect to a newly defined non-Hamming metric grown as the Rosenbloom-Tsfasman metric (RT, or $\rho$, in short). In this paper, the definitions of the Lee complete $\rho$ weight enumerator and the exact complete $\rho$ weight enumerator of a code over $M_n_\times_s(Z_4)$ are given, and the MacWilliams identities with respect to this RT metric for the two weight enumerators of a linear code over $M_n_\times_s(Z_4)$ are proven too. At last, we also prove that the MacWilliams identities for the Lee and exact complete $\rho$ weight enumerators of a linear code over $M_n_\times_s(Z_4)$ are the generalizations of the MacWilliams identities for the Lee and complete weight enumerators of the corresponding code over $Z_4$.

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