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Weight distributions of a class of cyclic codes with arbitrary number of nonzeros in quadratic case. (English) Zbl 1355.94088
Summary: Cyclic codes are an important class of linear codes, whose weight distribution have been extensively studied. So far, most of previous results obtained were for cyclic codes with no more than three nonzeros. Recently, the authors [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 59, No. 9, 5985–5993 (2013; doi:10.1109/TIT.2013.2266731)] constructed a class of cyclic codes with arbitrary number of nonzeros, and computed the weight distribution for several cases. In this paper, we determine the weight distribution for a new family of such codes. This is achieved by introducing certain new methods, such as the theory of Jacobi sums over finite fields and subtle treatment of some complicated combinatorial identities.

##### MSC:
 94B15 Cyclic codes 94B05 Linear codes, general
##### Keywords:
cyclic codes; weight distribution; Gaussian periods; Jacobi sums
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