CODES OVER POLYNOMIAL RINGS AND THEIR PROJECTIONS

  • Park, Young Ho (Department of Mathematics Kangwon National University)
  • Received : 2008.09.12
  • Published : 2009.12.30

Abstract

We study codes over the polynomial ring ${\mathbb{F}}_q[D]$ and their projections to the finite rings ${\mathbb{F}}_q[D]/(D^m)$ and the weight enumerators of self-dual codes over these rings. We also give the formula for the number of codewords of minimum weight in the projections.

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