Nine-weight conjecture for the subfield code associated with the second oval polynomial

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Let q=2mq=2^m, with m≡3(mod4)m\equiv 3\pmod 4 and m≥5m\geq 5, and define

f(x)=x2(m+1)/2+2(m+1)/4.f(x)=x^{2^{(m+1)/2}+2^{(m+1)/4}}.

Let C(f,q)(2){\mathcal{C}}_{(f,q)}^{(2)} be the associated binary subfield code. Nine-weight conjecture. The code C(f,q)(2){\mathcal{C}}_{(f,q)}^{(2)} has parameters

[2m+1,2m,2m−1−2(m−1)/2],[2^m+1,2m,2^{m-1}-2^{(m-1)/2}],

and nine nonzero weights. Its dual has parameters [2m+1,2m−2m+1,3][2^m+1,2^m-2m+1,3]. The claim is one of the conjectures prompted by Magma experiments because the minimal distance and weight distribution were not determined theoretically.

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Ziling Heng and Cunsheng Ding, “The Subfield Codes of [q+1, 2, q] MDS Codes”, arXiv:2008.00695 (2020).

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