Description
A projective code whose codewords all have one of two possible nonzero Hamming weights.
There is a correspondence between projective two-weight codes, projective two-character sets, and certain strongly regular graphs [1]. As such, projective two-weight codes have been classified and can be constructed out of quadrics [2,3], maximal arcs and hyperovals, Baer spaces, or Hermitian quadrics [4]. There are also several sporadic examples [4; Table 19.1].
Parents
Children
- Ovoid code — The ovoid code is a two-weight projective code [5,6][7; Table 7.1].
- Denniston code — Denniston codes are projective two-weight codes on maximal arcs [8][4; Sec. 19.7.3].
- Hill projective-cap code — Hill projective-cap codes are projective two-weight codes on projective caps [4; Table 19.1].
Cousins
- Ternary Golay code — The dual of the ternary Golay code is a projective two-weight subcode [5,6][4; Ex. 19.3.2][7; Table 7.1].
- Hyperoval code — Codes based on hyperovals in \(PG_{2}(q)\) with even \(q\) are projective two-weight codes [5,6][4; Exam. 19.2.1][7; Table 7.1].
References
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- A. E. Brouwer, "Two-weight Codes." Concise Encyclopedia of Coding Theory (Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2021) DOI
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- N. Tzanakis and J. Wolfskill, “The diophantine equation x2 = 4qa2 + 4q + 1, with an application to coding theory”, Journal of Number Theory 26, 96 (1987) DOI
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- Rudolf Schürer and Wolfgang Ch. Schmid. “Denniston Codes.” From MinT—the database of optimal net, code, OA, and OOA parameters. Version: 2015-09-03. http://mint.sbg.ac.at/desc_CDenniston.html
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- Victor V. Albert (2023-04-15) — most recent
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“Projective two-weight code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2023. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/projective_two_weight