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On products and powers of linear codes under componentwise multiplication
In this text we develop the formalism of products and powers of linear codes
under componentwise multiplication. As an expanded version of the author's talk
at AGCT-14, focus is put mostly on basic properties and descriptive statements
that could otherwise probably not fit in a regular research paper. On the other
hand, more advanced results and applications are only quickly mentioned with
references to the literature. We also point out a few open problems.
Our presentation alternates between two points of view, which the theory
intertwines in an essential way: that of combinatorial coding, and that of
algebraic geometry.
In appendices that can be read independently, we investigate topics in
multilinear algebra over finite fields, notably we establish a criterion for a
symmetric multilinear map to admit a symmetric algorithm, or equivalently, for
a symmetric tensor to decompose as a sum of elementary symmetric tensors.Comment: 75 pages; expanded version of a talk at AGCT-14 (Luminy), to appear
in vol. 637 of Contemporary Math., AMS, Apr. 2015; v3: minor typos corrected
in the final "open questions" sectio