ON THE SUPPORT WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION OF LINEAR CODES OVER THE RING

Abstract

Let $R=\mathbb{F}_{p}+u\mathbb{F}_{p}+u^{2}\mathbb{F}_{p}+\cdots +u^{d-1}\mathbb{F}_{p}$, where $u^{d}=u$ and $p$ is a prime with $d-1$ dividing $p-1$. A relation between the support weight distribution of a linear code $\mathscr{C}$ of type $p^{dk}$ over $R$ and the dual code $\mathscr{C}^{\bot }$ is established.