A family of self-orthogonal divisible codes with locality 2

• Published in: Discrete mathematics Vol. 348; no. 10; p. 114529
• Main Authors: Heng, Ziling, Yang, Mengjie, Ming, Yang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.10.2025
• Subjects: Gaussian sum; Self-orthogonal code; Weight distribution; Weight distribution; Gaussian sum; Self-orthogonal code
• ISSN: 0012-365X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2025.114529

Linear codes are widely studied due to their applications in communication, cryptography, quantum codes, distributed storage and many other fields. In this paper, we use the trace and norm functions over finite fields to construct a family of linear codes. The weight distributions of the codes are determined in three cases via Gaussian sums. The codes are shown to be self-orthogonal divisible codes with only three, four or five nonzero weights in these cases. In particular, we prove that this family of linear codes has locality 2. Several optimal or almost optimal linear codes and locally recoverable codes are derived. In particular, an infinite family of distance-optimal binary linear codes with respect to the sphere-packing bound is obtained. The self-orthogonal codes derived in this paper can be used to construct lattices and have nice application in distributed storage.