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There is a remarkable relation between the weight enumerator of a linear code and the weight enumerator of the dual code. The relation was first discovered by F. J. MacWilliams. The proof we give here is based on an idea due to A. M. Gleason.
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van Lint, J.H. (1971). Weight Enumeration. In: Coding Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 201. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-20712-3_6
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