Skew G-codes

We describe skew [Formula: see text]-codes, which are codes that are the ideals in a skew group ring, where the ring is a finite commutative Frobenius ring and [Formula: see text] is an arbitrary finite group. These codes generalize many of the well-known classes of codes such as cyclic, quasicyclic, constacyclic codes, skew cyclic, skew quasicyclic and skew constacyclic codes. Additionally, using the skew [Formula: see text]-matrices, we can generalize almost all the known constructions in the literature for self-dual codes.

Constacyclic codes over the ring Fq[u,v,w]/〈u2 − 1, v2 − 1,w3 − w, uv − vu,vw − wv,wu − uw〉

Let [Formula: see text] be the ring [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] for any odd prime [Formula: see text] and positive integer [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we study constacyclic codes over the ring [Formula: see text]. We define a Gray map by a matrix and decompose a constacyclic code over the ring [Formula: see text] as the direct sum of constacyclic codes over [Formula: see text], we also characterize self-dual constacyclic codes over the ring [Formula: see text] and give necessary and sufficient conditions for constacyclic codes to be dual-containing. As an application, we give a method to construct quantum codes from dual-containing constacyclic codes over the ring [Formula: see text].

Constacyclic Codes over Finite Chain Rings of Characteristic p

Let R be a finite commutative chain ring of characteristic p with invariants p,r, and k. In this paper, we study λ-constacyclic codes of an arbitrary length N over R, where λ is a unit of R. We first reduce this to investigate constacyclic codes of length ps (N=n1ps,p∤n1) over a certain finite chain ring CR(uk,rb) of characteristic p, which is an extension of R. Then we use discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to construct an isomorphism γ between R[x]/<xN−λ> and a direct sum ⊕b∈IS(rb) of certain local rings, where I is the complete set of representatives of p-cyclotomic cosets modulo n1. By this isomorphism, all codes over R and their dual codes are obtained from the ideals of S(rb). In addition, we determine explicitly the inverse of γ so that the unique polynomial representations of λ-constacyclic codes may be calculated. Finally, for k=2 the exact number of such codes is provided.

Symbol-Pair Distances of Repeated-Root Negacyclic Codes of Length 2s over Galois Rings

Negacyclic codes of length [Formula: see text] over the Galois ring [Formula: see text] are linearly ordered under set-theoretic inclusion, i.e., they are the ideals [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], of the chain ring [Formula: see text]. This structure is used to obtain the symbol-pair distances of all such negacyclic codes. Among others, for the special case when the alphabet is the finite field [Formula: see text] (i.e., [Formula: see text]), the symbol-pair distance distribution of constacyclic codes over [Formula: see text] verifies the Singleton bound for such symbol-pair codes, and provides all maximum distance separable symbol-pair constacyclic codes of length [Formula: see text] over [Formula: see text].