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Codes coming from a blowing up of the plane

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Here we improve the lower bound on the minimum distance for the evaluation codes obtained by Davis from certain blowing-ups of the planes (anticanonical surfaces).

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The author was partially supported by MIUR and GNSAGA of INdAM (Italy).

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Ballico, E. Codes coming from a blowing up of the plane. Afr. Mat. 24, 93–96 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13370-011-0042-x

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