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Partitions of Matrix Spaces With an Application to -Rook Polynomials
We study the row-space partition and the pivot partition on the matrix space
. We show that both these partitions are reflexive
and that the row-space partition is self-dual. Moreover, using various
combinatorial methods, we explicitly compute the Krawtchouk coefficients
associated with these partitions. This establishes MacWilliams-type identities
for the row-space and pivot enumerators of linear rank-metric codes. We then
generalize the Singleton-like bound for rank-metric codes, and introduce two
new concepts of code extremality. Both of them generalize the notion of MRD
codes and are preserved by trace-duality. Moreover, codes that are extremal
according to either notion satisfy strong rigidity properties analogous to
those of MRD codes. As an application of our results to combinatorics, we give
closed formulas for the -rook polynomials associated with Ferrers diagram
boards. Moreover, we exploit connections between matrices over finite fields
and rook placements to prove that the number of matrices of rank over
supported on a Ferrers diagram is a polynomial in , whose
degree is strictly increasing in . Finally, we investigate the natural
analogues of the MacWilliams Extension Theorem for the rank, the row-space, and
the pivot partitions
Classification of poset-block spaces admitting MacWilliams-type identity
In this work we prove that a poset-block space admits a MacWilliams-type
identity if and only if the poset is hierarchical and at any level of the
poset, all the blocks have the same dimension. When the poset-block admits the
MacWilliams-type identity we explicit the relation between the weight
enumerators of a code and its dual.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information
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