Random Generation of Linear Codes
Harald Fripertinger1
Dedicated to Professor János Aczél on the occasion of his
birthday.
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Abstract
Isometry classes of linear codes can be expressed as orbits under the
group action of a wreath product.
Some combinatorial and algebraic methods are discussed which can be
applied for generating linear codes distributed uniformly at random
over all isometry classes.
harald.fripertinger@kfunigraz.ac.at,
last changed: February 19, 2001