Extremal quasi-cyclic self-dual codes over finite fields

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Abstract

We study self-dual codes over a factor ring R=Fq[X]/(Xm1) of length , equivalently, -quasi-cyclic self-dual codes of length mℓ over a finite field Fq, provided that the polynomial Xm1 has exactly three distinct irreducible factors in Fq[X], where Fq is the finite field of order q. There are two types of the ring R depending on how the conjugation map acts on the minimal ideals of R. We show that every self-dual code over the ring R of the first type with length ≥6 has free rank ≥2. This implies that every -quasi-cyclic self-dual code of length m6m over Fq can be obtained by the building-up construction, where m corresponds to the ring R of the first type. On the other hand, there exists a self-dual code of free rank ≤1 over the ring R of the second type. We explicitly determine the forms of generator matrices of all self-dual codes over R of free rank ≤1. For the case that m=7, we find 9828 binary 10-quasi-cyclic self-dual codes of length 70 with minimum weight 12, up to equivalence, which are constructed from self-dual codes over the ring R of the second type. These codes are all new codes. Furthermore, for the case that m=17, we find 1566 binary 4-quasi-cyclic self-dual codes of length 68 with minimum weight 12, up to equivalence, which are constructed from self-dual codes over the ring R of the first type.

MSC

primary
94B05
secondary
11T71

Keywords

Quasi-cyclic code
Self-dual code
Extremal code
Finite field

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1

The author was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (NRF-2017R1D1A1B03028251).

2

The author was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2009-0093827) and also by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (NRF-2017R1A2B2004574).