Complete weight enumerators of some few-weight linear codes from extended defining sets
摘要
Linear codes, especially those with few-weight, have extensive applications in cryptography, quantum theory, distributed storage, and combinatorial designs. This paper introduces a new construction of linear codes based on an extended defining set with two trace conditions. The complete weight enumerators and parameters of the codes are determined explicitly, yielding many new two-weight, three-weight, four-weight, and five-weight linear codes with previously unknown parameters. Most of these codes are proven to be minimal via the Ashikhmin–Barg bound and exhibit good performance in cryptographic applications such as secret-sharing schemes.