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In this paper, we give an important isomorphism between contacyclic codes and cyclic codes,over finite principal ideal rings.Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of non-trivial cyclic self-dual codes over finite principal ideal rings are given.

We present a new approach to the theory of cyclic and constacyclic codes and generalize the theory to cover the family of additive (not necessarily linear) cyclic codes. The approach is based on the action of the Galois group (cyclotomic cosets). The conventional representation of cyclic codes as ideals in a factor ring of the polynomial ring is not needed. 1 General facts on linear codes The c...

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have emerged as an important coding scheme in distributed storage systems (DSSs) with relatively low repair costs by accessing fewer non-failure nodes. Theoretical bounds and optimal constructions of LRCs been widely investigated. Optimal via cyclic constacyclic provide significant benefits elegant algebraic structure efficient encoding procedure. In this paper, ...

Let Fpm be a finite field of cardinality p m and R = Fpm[u]/〈u 〉 = Fpm +uFpm (u = 0), where p is a prime and m is a positive integer. For any λ ∈ Fpm, an explicit representation for all distinct λ-constacyclic codes over R of length pn is given by a canonical form decomposition for each code, where s and n are positive integers satisfying gcd(p, n) = 1. For any such code, using its canonical fo...

Cyclic codes are an interesting type of linear codes and have wide applications in communication and storage systems due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. In coding theory it is often desirable to know the weight distribution of a cyclic code to estimate the error correcting capability and error probability. In this paper, we present the recent progress on the weight distribu...