Minimum cyclotomic coset representatives and their applications to BCH codes and Goppa codes

We consider the minimum cyclotomic coset representatives and derive some of their properties. The results allow more precise estimates of the dimension of Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) and classical Goppa codes of a given designed minimum distance, and more precise estimates of the true designed distance of BCH codes and the minimum distance of classical Goppa codes.