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A Polymatroid Approach to Generalized Weights of Rank Metric Codes (1904.01913v2)
Published 3 Apr 2019 in cs.IT, math.CO, and math.IT
Abstract: We consider the notion of a $(q,m)$-polymatroid, due to Shiromoto, and the more general notion of $(q,m)$-demi-polymatroid, and show how generalized weights can be defined for them. Further, we establish a duality for these weights analogous to Wei duality for generalized Hamming weights of linear codes. The corresponding results of Ravagnani for Delsarte rank metric codes, and Martinez-Penas and Matsumoto for relative generalized rank weights are derived as a consequence.