Minimum-weight codewords as generators of generalized Reed-Muller codes

Abstract

We establish the range of values of /spl rho/, where 0/spl les//spl rho//spl les/m(q-1), for which the generalized Reed-Muller code R/sub Fq/(/spl rho/, m) of length q/sup m/ over the field F/sub q/ of order q is spanned by its minimum-weight vectors.