MRD-codes and linear sets.

In this paper we point out the relationship between linear MRD-codes and various geometric objects as linearized polynomials, linear sets of P G ( n − 1 , q n ) , and generalized Segre varieties. We introduce and characterize a class of particular linear MRD-codes called F q n -linear codes with distance n − k + 1 proving that such codes are equivalent to ( n − k + 1 ) -embeddings of a canonical subgeometry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]