A MacWilliams type identity for m-spotty generalized Lee weight enumerators over Zq q

Burst errors are very common in practice. There have been many designs in order to control and correct such errors. Recently, a new class of byte error control codes called spotty byte error control codes has been specifically designed to fit the large capacity memory systems that use highdensity random access memory (RAM) chips with input/output data of 8, 16, and 32 bits. The MacWilliams identity describes how the weight enumerator of a linear code and the weight enumerator of its dual code are related. Also, Lee metric which has attracted many researchers due to its applications. In this paper, we combine these two interesting topics and introduce the m-spotty generalized Lee weights and the m-spotty generalized Lee weight enumerators of a code over Zq and prove a MacWilliams type identity. This generalization includes both the case of the identity given in the paper [I. Siap, MacWilliams identity for m-spotty Lee weight enumerators, Appl. Math. Lett. 23 (1) (2010) 13-16] and the identity given in the paper [M. Özen, V. Şiap, The MacWilliams identity for m-spotty weight enumerators of linear codes over finite fields, Comput. Math. Appl. 61 (4) (2011) 1000-1004] over Z2 and Z3 as special cases.