A class of $p$-ary cyclic codes and their weight enumerators

Abstract

Let $\mathbb{F}_{p^m}$ be a finite field with $p^m$ elements, where $p$ is an odd prime, and $m$ is a positive integer. Let $h_1(x)$ and $h_2(x)$ be minimal polynomials of $-\pi^{-1}$ and $\pi^{-\frac{p^k+1}{2}}$ over $\mathbb{F}_p$, respectively, where $\pi $ is a primitive element of $\mathbb{F}_{p^m}$, and $k$ is a positive integer such that $\frac{m}{\gcd(m,k)}\geq 3$. In [23], Zhou et al. obtained the weight distribution of a class of cyclic codes over $\mathbb{F}_p$ with parity-check polynomial $h_1(x)h_2(x)$ in the following two cases: &nbsp • $k$ is even and $\gcd(m,k)$ is odd; &nbsp • $\frac{m}{\gcd(m,k)}$ and $\frac{k}{\gcd(m,k)}$ are both odd. In this paper, we further investigate this class of cyclic codes over $\mathbb{F}_p$ in other cases. We determine the weight distribution of this class of cyclic codes.