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The construction follows the scheme:
We will call f ( . ) the generating mapping of the
construction. The familiar lexicode family of minimum distance d is
thus the simple special case
, where we
use the trivial seed code
d
{0d, 1d}.
The code in Table 1
is
, as can be verified by hand.
Despite its generality, there are many linear codes that cannot
be constructed using a non-trivial application of the
-construction. The
code given by the following basis vectors is one such example:
For sake of simplicity we shall concern ourselves only with binary codes in the remainder of this paper, though the extension to q-ary codes is fairly straightforward.