Codes, arrangements and matroids

This chapter treats error-correcting codes and their weight enumerator as the center of several closely related topics such as arrangements of hyperplanes, graph theory, matroids, posets and geometric lattices and their characteristic, chromatic, Tutte, Möbius and coboundary polynomial, respectively. Their interrelations and many examples and counterexamples are given. It is concluded with a section with references to the literature for further reading and open questions