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    Orbits of Lines for a Twisted Cubic in PG (3 , q)

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    In the projective space PG (3 , q) , we consider the orbits of lines under the stabilizer group of the twisted cubic. In the literature, lines of PG (3 , q) are partitioned into classes, each of which is a union of line orbits. In this paper, all classes of lines consisting of a unique orbit are found. For the remaining line types, with one exception, it is proved that they consist exactly of two or three orbits; sizes and structures of these orbits are determined. Also, the subgroups of the stabilizer group of the twisted cubic fixing lines of the orbits are obtained. Problems which remain open for one type of lines are formulated and, for 5 ≤ q≤ 37 and q= 64 , a solution is provided

    Optimal Additive Quaternary Codes of Low Dimension

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    An additive quaternary [n, k, d]-code (length n, quaternary dimension k, minimum distance d) is a 2kdimensional F2-vector space of n-Tuples with entries in F2-F2 (the 2-dimensional vector space over F2) with minimum Hamming distance d. We determine the optimal parameters of additive quaternary codes of dimension k-3. The most challenging case is dimension k = 2.5. We prove that an additive quaternary [n, 2.5, d]-code whered n-1 exists if and only if 3(n-d) d/2+d/4+d/8. In particular, we construct new optimal 2.5-dimensional additive quaternary codes. As a by-product, we give a direct proof for the fact that a binary linear [3m, 5, 2e]2-code for e m-1 exists if and only if the Griesmer bound 3(m-e) e/2+e/4+e/8 is satisfied.

    ON THE WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION OF THE COSETS OF MDS CODES

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    The weight distribution of the cosets of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes is considered. In 1990, P.G. Bonneau proposed a relation to obtain the full weight distribution of a coset of an MDS code with minimum distance d using the known numbers of vectors of weights ≤ d − 2 in this coset. In this paper, the Bonneau formula is transformed into a more structured and convenient form. The new version of the formula allows to consider effectively cosets of distinct weights W . (The weight W of a coset is the smallest Hamming weight of any vector in the coset.) For each of the considered W or regions of W, special relations more simple than the general ones are obtained. For the MDS code cosets of weight W = 1 and weight W = d − 1 we obtain formulas of the weight distributions depending only on the code parameters. This proves that all the cosets of weight W = 1 (as well as W = d − 1) have the same weight distribution. The cosets of weight W = 2 or W = d − 2 may have different weight distributions; in this case, we proved that the distributions are symmetrical in some sense. The weight distributions of the cosets of MDS codes corresponding to arcs in the projective plane PG(2, q) are also considered. For MDS codes of covering radius R = d − 1 we obtain the number of the weight W = d − 1 cosets and their weight distribution that gives rise to a certain classification of the so-called deep holes. We show that any MDS code of covering radius R = d − 1 is an almost perfect multiple covering of the farthest-off points (deep holes); moreover, it corresponds to an optimal multiple saturating set in the projective space PG(N, q)

    On Cosets Weight Distribution of Doubly-Extended Reed-Solomon Codes of Codimension 4

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    We consider the 3 generalized doubly-extended Reed-Solomon code of codimension 4 as the code associated with the twisted cubic in the projective space mathrm {PG}(3, ext {q}). Basing on the point-plane incidence matrix of mathrm {PG}(3, ext {q}) , we obtain the number of weight 3 vectors in all the cosets of the considered code. This allows us to classify the cosets by their weight distributions and to obtain these distributions. The weight of a coset is the smallest Hamming weight of any vector in the coset. For the cosets of equal weight having distinct weight distributions, we prove that the difference between the w-th components, 3 < ext {w}le ext {q}+1 , of the distributions is uniquely determined by the difference between the 3-rd components. This implies an interesting (and in some sense unexpected) symmetry of the obtained distributions

    Additive Quaternary Codes Related to Exceptional Linear Quaternary Codes

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    We study additive quaternary codes whose parameters are close to those of the extended cyclic [12,6,6]_4-code or to the quaternary linear codes generated by the elliptic quadric in PG(3,4) or its dual. In particular we characterize those codes in the category of additive codes and construct some additive codes whose parameters are better than those of any linear quaternary code. Our new code parameters are [22,17.5,4]_4

    Orbits of the Class O6 of Lines External to the Twisted Cubic in PG (3 , q)

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    In the projective space PG (3 , q) , we consider orbits of lines under the stabilizer group of the twisted cubic. In the literature, lines of PG (3 , q) are partitioned into classes, each of which is a union of line orbits. We propose an approach to obtain orbits of the class named O6, whose complete classification is an open problem. For all q, we describe a family of orbits of O6 and their stabilizer groups. The orbits of this family include an essential part of all O6 orbits

    Twisted cubic and point-line incidence matrix in PG (3 , q)

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    We consider the structure of the point-line incidence matrix of the projective space PG (3 , q) connected with orbits of points and lines under the stabilizer group of the twisted cubic. Structures of submatrices with incidences between a union of line orbits and an orbit of points are investigated. For the unions consisting of two or three line orbits, the original submatrices are split into new ones, in which the incidences are also considered. For each submatrix (apart from the ones corresponding to a special type of lines), the numbers of lines through every point and of points lying on every line are obtained. This corresponds to the numbers of ones in columns and rows of the submatrices

    On planes through points off the twisted cubic in PG(3,q) and multiple covering codes

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    Let PG(3,q) be the projective space of dimension three over the finite field with q elements. Consider a twisted cubic in PG(3,q). The structure of the point-plane incidence matrix in PG(3,q) with respect to the orbits of points and planes under the action of the stabilizer group of the twisted cubic is described. This information is used to view generalized doubly-extended Reed-Solomon codes of codimension four as asymptotically optimal multiple covering codes

    Resolving sets for higher dimensional projective spaces

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    Lower and upper bounds on the size of resolving sets for the point-hyperplane incidence graph of the finite projective space PG(n,q) are presented

    New upper bounds on the smallest size of a complete cap in the spaces PG(3, q) and PG(4, q)

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    In this paper we present and analyze computational results concerning small complete caps in the projective spaces PG(N, q) of dimension N = 3, 4 over the finite field of order q. The results have been obtained using randomized greedy algorithms and the algorithm with fixed order of points (FOP). The computatiohs have been done in wide regions of q values; such wide regions are not considered in literature for N = 3, 4. The new complete caps are the smallest known. Basing on these, we obtained new upper bounds on t(2)(N, q), the smallest size of a complete cap in PG(N, q), in particular,t2(N, q) < root N + 2 . q(N - 1/2) root ln q, q is an element of L-N, N = 3, 4;t(2)(N, q) < (root N + 1 + (1.3) (ln(2q))) q(N - 1/2) root ln q, q is an element of L-N, N = 3,4.Here L-N is a region of q values in which the computations were done. Moreover, our investigations and results allow to conjecture that these bounds hold for all q
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