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Edge codes constructed from unicyclic graphs

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Jaramillo-Velez recently introduced edge codes, a new class of toric evaluation codes constructed from the edges of a (hyper)graph $\mathcal{H}$. In the case that $\mathcal{H}$ is a tree, Jaramillo-Velez computed both the minimum distance and the weight distribution of the associated code. In this paper, we study edge codes associated to unicyclic graphs. Our most striking result is that computing the parameters of these codes is subtle in the case that the induced cycle has an even length because these values will depend on certain conditions regarding the length of the cycle and the size of the base field.

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Sara Asensio, Giulia Gaggero, Naveena Ragunathan, Abhilash Saha, Adam Van Tuyl. 2026-08-31. Edge codes constructed from unicyclic graphs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30407

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