On Cosets Weight Distribution of Doubly-Extended Reed-Solomon Codes of Codimension 4

We consider the [ q+1, q-3,5]
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3 generalized doubly-extended Reed-Solomon code of codimension 4 as the code associated with the twisted cubic in the projective space PG(3,q). Basing on the point-plane incidence matrix of PG(3,q), we obtain the number of weight 3 vectors in all the cosets of the considered code. This allows us to classify the cosets by their weight distributions and to obtain these distributions. The weight of a coset is the smallest Hamming weight of any vector in the coset. For the cosets of equal weight having distinct weight distributions, we prove that the difference between the w-th components, 3 <; w ≤ q+1, of the distributions is uniquely determined by the difference between the 3-rd components. This implies an interesting (and in some sense unexpected) symmetry of the obtained distributions.