Coding Theory and Applications
Subtitle: 3rd International Colloquium, Toulon, France, November 2-4, 1988. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Gerard Cohen (Editor); Jacques Wolfmann (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 18, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9783540516439
Subjects: Discrete Mathematics; Computers - General Information; Computer Science; Information Theory; Algebraische Geometrie; Computers / Information Theory; Informationstheorie; Kodierungstheorie; Kombinatorik; Modulation
First sentence: The purpose of this survey is to show how character sums can be used in order to get upper bounds on the covering radius and on the minimum distance of a code.