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Sum all nonzero vectors of ${\mathbb{F}}_2^d$. In each coordinate, exactly $2^{d-1}$ vectors have entry one, which is even because $d>1$. The sum is therefore zero, soThus the all-one word belongs to the Hamming code and has Hamming weight $n$.

For a binary block code, $n$ is the common length of its codewords, $m=|C|$ is the number of codewords, andis its minimum Hamming distance.

The parity extension isEvery extended word has even Hamming weight. The distance between two words increases by one exactly when their original distance is odd, so

If $c\in C$ had odd Hamming weight, add all $n$ cyclic shifts of $c$. Each coordinate of the sum is the sum of all coordinates of $c$, namely one in ${\mathbb{F}}_2$. Linearity and cyclicity would therefore put $(1,\dots ,1)$ in $C$, contrary to the hypothesis. Hence every codeword has even weight.

A square-free monomial in $d$ variables of degree $j\le d-1$ evaluates to one at exactly $2^{d-j}$ points of ${\mathbb{F}}_2^d$, an even number. Since parity of Hamming weight is a linear functional over ${\mathbb{F}}_2$, every sum of such evaluation words also has even weight. Hence every word in $\mathrm{RM}(d,d-1)$ has even weight.

If $f$ and $g$ have degrees at most $r$ and $d-r-1$, then $fg$ has degree at most $d-1$. The binary inner product of their evaluation words is the parity of the weight of the evaluation of $fg$, and is therefore zero. ThusFinally, binomial symmetry givesso the inclusion has equal dimensions andThis is the Dual of a Reed-Muller code.

The urn count $X_t^{(n)}$ is the lumped Markov chain obtained from the lazy hypercube walk by recording its Hamming weight. Starting from $0^n$, the hypercube law is uniform on every Hamming sphere, as is its stationary law conditional on the sphere. Consequently the total variation distance of the full walk from stationarity equals that of its Hamming-weight projection.

Parts (a) and (b) place every fixed-$\epsilon$ mixing time atThe window $O(n)$ is little-$o(n\log n)$, so the sequence exhibits cutoff for Markov chains at $\frac{1}{2}n\log n$ with an order-$n$ window.

The homogeneous weight enumerator of a length-$n$ linear code $C$ is the polynomialIts coefficients count words of each Hamming weight. In this convention $W_C(1,1)=|C|$; some references interchange $s,t$.