A Proof of a Conjecture About a Class of Near Maximum Distance Separable Codes

Wei Lu, Xia Wu

In this paper, we completely determine the number of solutions to ${\mathrm{Tr}}_q^{q^2}(bx+b)+c=0,x\in {\mu }_{q+1}\backslash \{-1\}$ for all $b\in \mathbb{F}_{q^2}, c\in\mathbb{…