%0 Journal Article %T Noncommutative symmetric functions associated with a code, Lazard elimination, and Witt vectors %A Jean-Gabriel Luque %A Jean-Yves Thibon %J Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science %D 2007 %I Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science %X The construction of the universal ring of Witt vectors is related to Lazard's factorizations of free monoids by means of a noncommutative analogue. This is done by associating to a code a specialization of noncommutative symmetric functions. %U http://www.dmtcs.org/dmtcs-ojs/index.php/dmtcs/article/view/651