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Classification of linear codes using canonical augmentation

Iliya Bouyukliev , Stefka Bouyuklieva This is my paper

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An algorithm based on canonical augmentation classifies linear codes over finite fields with 2, 3, and 4 elements without duplicates or omissions.

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The paper proposes an algorithm that classifies linear codes over different finite fields by adapting the technique of canonical augmentation. It demonstrates the method by producing classification results specifically for fields with 2, 3, and 4 elements. A reader would care because exhaustive classification of linear codes supports systematic study of their error-correcting properties and isomorphism classes. The approach focuses on generating complete sets of distinct codes by building them in a canonical manner that avoids redundant copies.

Core claim

The paper establishes that canonical augmentation can be adapted to linear codes over finite fields to generate complete, non-redundant classifications, and it applies the resulting algorithm to obtain explicit classification results over the fields with 2, 3, and 4 elements.

What carries the argument

Canonical augmentation adapted to linear codes, which builds codes by successive addition of basis vectors or generators while enforcing a canonical representative to eliminate isomorphic duplicates.

If this is right

  • Complete lists of non-isomorphic linear codes are obtained for the fields GF(2), GF(3), and GF(4).
  • The algorithm provides a systematic enumeration method that scales to different finite fields.
  • Classifications produced are free of both omissions and isomorphic repetitions.
  • The technique supplies a computational tool for generating all distinct linear codes up to equivalence.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same augmentation strategy might extend to classifying codes over larger fields or to related objects such as constant-weight codes.
  • The resulting classified lists could be used as input data for studying weight distributions or minimum distances across all codes of given parameters.
  • If the method is efficient, it could support exhaustive searches for optimal codes in small-parameter regimes.

Load-bearing premise

The canonical augmentation technique can be adapted to linear codes in a way that produces complete classifications without missing any valid codes or introducing duplicates.

What would settle it

Finding either an omitted valid linear code or a duplicate isomorphic copy when running the algorithm on the smallest field, such as all linear codes of a given length and dimension over GF(2).

read the original abstract

We propose an algorithm for classification of linear codes over different finite fields based on canonical augmentation. We apply this algorithm to obtain classification results over fields with 2, 3 and 4 elements.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes an algorithm for classification of linear codes over different finite fields based on canonical augmentation and applies this algorithm to obtain classification results over fields with 2, 3 and 4 elements.

Significance. If the algorithm is correct, complete, and free of duplicates or omissions, it would offer a new computational approach to enumerating linear codes, which is a standard task in coding theory for small finite fields. However, the absence of any algorithm description, pseudocode, proofs of correctness or completeness, or tabulated classification results prevents any assessment of whether the central claim holds.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that the algorithm was applied to obtain classification results over GF(2), GF(3) and GF(4) is unsupported by any description of the algorithm, the search tree, the canonical form definition, verification steps, or output data, rendering the adaptation of canonical augmentation to linear codes impossible to evaluate.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their comments on our manuscript. The main concern is that the abstract's claims lack supporting details in the paper. We address this point below and will revise the manuscript to include the requested elements.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that the algorithm was applied to obtain classification results over GF(2), GF(3) and GF(4) is unsupported by any description of the algorithm, the search tree, the canonical form definition, verification steps, or output data, rendering the adaptation of canonical augmentation to linear codes impossible to evaluate.

    Authors: We agree that the current manuscript does not contain a description of the algorithm, pseudocode, proofs of correctness, the search tree, canonical form definition, verification steps, or tabulated classification results. These elements are necessary for a complete evaluation. In the revised version we will add a full description of the canonical augmentation procedure adapted to linear codes, including the search tree structure, the definition of the canonical form used, verification methods to confirm completeness and absence of duplicates, and the explicit classification results over GF(2), GF(3) and GF(4). revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; algorithmic proposal with no self-referential derivations

full rationale

The paper proposes an algorithm for classifying linear codes via canonical augmentation and applies it to small fields. No equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or first-principles derivations appear in the provided abstract or description. The central claim is a direct algorithmic construction whose correctness rests on standard search-tree completeness arguments rather than any reduction to its own inputs or self-citations. No load-bearing steps match the enumerated circularity patterns.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract does not mention any free parameters, axioms, or invented entities.

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