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We present a description of abelian codes by means of a trace function. This new description leads to an estimation of the weights of these codes that generalizes results of Baumert, McEliece and Niederreiter about the weights of cyclic codes.
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Langevin, P. Weights of Abelian Codes. Designs, Codes and Cryptography 14, 239–245 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008252803758
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008252803758