Ahlswede and Katona (1977) posed the following isodiametric problem in Hamming spaces: For every $n$ and $1le Mle2^{n}$, determine the minimum average Hamming distance of binary codes with length $n$ and size $M$. Fu, Wei, and Yeung (2001) used linear programming duality to derive a lower bound on the minimum average distance. However, their linear programming approach was not completely exploited. In this paper, we improve Fu-Wei-Yeungs bound by finding a better feasible solution to their dual program. For fixed $0<ale1/2$ and for $M=leftlceil a2^{n}rightrceil $, our feasible solution attains the asymptotically optimal value of Fu-Wei-Yeungs dual program as $ntoinfty$. Hence for $0<ale1/2$, all possible asymptotic bounds that can be derived by Fu-Wei-Yeungs linear program have been characterized. Furthermore, noting that the average distance of a code is closely related to weights of Fourier coefficients of a Boolean function, we also apply the linear programming technique to prove bounds on Fourier weights of a Boolean function of various degrees.
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