2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/114227The 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.CombinatoricsNoncommutative Symmetric Functions Associated with a Code, Lazard Elimination, and Witt Vectorstext