Dual code

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In coding theory, the dual code of a linear code

C\subset {\mathbb {F}}_{q}^{n}

is the linear code defined by

C^{\perp }=\{x\in {\mathbb {F}}_{q}^{n}\mid \langle x,c\rangle =0\;\forall c\in C\}

where

\langle x,c\rangle =\sum _{{i=1}}^{n}x_{i}c_{i}

is a scalar product. In linear algebra terms, the dual code is the annihilator of C with respect to the bilinear form <,>. The dimension of C and its dual always add up to the length n:

\dim C+\dim C^{\perp }=n.

A generator matrix for the dual code is a parity-check matrix for the original code and vice versa. The dual of the dual code is always the original code.

Self-dual codes

A self-dual code is one which is its own dual. This implies that n is even and dim C = n/2. If a self-dual code is such that each codeword's weight is a multiple of some constant c>1, then it is of one of the following four types:[1]

  • Type I codes are binary self-dual codes which are not doubly even. Type I codes are always even (every codeword has even Hamming weight).
  • Type II codes are binary self-dual codes which are doubly even.
  • Type III codes are ternary self-dual codes. Every codeword in a Type III code has Hamming weight divisible by 3.
  • Type IV codes are self-dual codes over F4. These are again even.

Codes of types I, II, III, or IV exist only if the length n is a multiple of 2, 8, 4, or 2 respectively.

References

  1. ↑ Conway, J.H.; Sloane,N.J.A. (1988). Sphere packings, lattices and groups. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften 290. Springer-Verlag. p. 77. ISBN 0-387-96617-X. 
  • Hill, Raymond (1986). A first course in coding theory. Oxford Applied Mathematics and Computing Science Series. Oxford University Press. p. 67. ISBN 0-19-853803-0. 
  • Pless, Vera (1982). Introduction to the theory of error-correcting codes. Wiley-Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons. p. 8. ISBN 0-471-08684-3. 
  • J.H. van Lint (1992). Introduction to Coding Theory. GTM 86 (2nd ed ed.). Springer-Verlag. p. 34. ISBN 3-540-54894-7. 

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