%0 Journal Article %T The minimum distance of parameterized codes on projective tori %A Eliseo Sarmiento %A Maria Vaz Pinto %A Rafael H. Villarreal %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %X Let X be a subset of a projective space, over a finite field K, which is parameterized by the monomials arising from the edges of a clutter. Let I(X) be the vanishing ideal of X. It is shown that I(X) is a complete intersection if and only if X is a projective torus. In this case we determine the minimum distance of any parameterized linear code arising from X. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4966v3