Symbol-pair Weight Distributions of Some Linear Codes

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the symbol-pair weight distributions of MDS codes and simplex codes over finite fields. Furthermore, the result shows that all the nonzero codewords of simplex codes have the same symbol $b$-weight and rearrangement entries of codewords in simplex code may induce different symbol-pair weight. In addition, the symbol $b$-weight distributions of variation simplex codes over certain finite fields are derived.