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We introduce a consistent and efficient method to construct self-dual codes over $GF(q)$ with symmetric generator matrices from a self-dual code over $GF(q)$ of smaller length where $q equiv 1 pmod 4$. Using this method, we improve the best-known minimum weights of self-dual codes, which have not significantly improved for almost two decades. We focus on a class of self-dual codes, including double circulant codes. Using our method, called a `symmetric building-up construction, we obtain many new self-dual codes over $GF(13)$ and $GF(17)$ and improve the bounds of best-known minimum weights of self-dual codes of lengths up to 40. Besides, we compute the minimum weights of quadratic residue codes that were not known before. These are: a [20,10,10] QR self-dual code over $GF(23)$, two [24,12,12] QR self-dual codes over $GF(29)$ and $GF(41)$, and a [32,12,14] QR self-dual codes over $GF(19)$. They have the highest minimum weights so far.
BCH codes are an interesting class of cyclic codes due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. In many cases, BCH codes are the best linear codes. However, the dimension and minimum distance of BCH codes have been seldom solved. Until now, there have been few results on BCH codes over $gf(q)$ with length $q^m+1$, especially when $q$ is a prime power and $m$ is even. The objective of this paper is to study BCH codes of this type over finite fields and analyse their parameters. The BCH codes presented in this paper have good parameters in general, and contain many optimal linear codes.
This paper gives new methods of constructing {it symmetric self-dual codes} over a finite field $GF(q)$ where $q$ is a power of an odd prime. These methods are motivated by the well-known Pless symmetry codes and quadratic double circulant codes. Using these methods, we construct an amount of symmetric self-dual codes over $GF(11)$, $GF(19)$, and $GF(23)$ of every length less than 42. We also find 153 {it new} self-dual codes up to equivalence: they are $[32, 16, 12]$, $[36, 18, 13]$, and $[40, 20,14]$ codes over $GF(11)$, $[36, 18, 14]$ and $[40, 20, 15]$ codes over $GF(19)$, and $[32, 16, 12]$, $[36, 18, 14]$, and $[40, 20, 15]$ codes over $GF(23)$. They all have new parameters with respect to self-dual codes. Consequently, we improve bounds on the highest minimum distance of self-dual codes, which have not been significantly updated for almost two decades.
In this paper, we give conditions for the existence of Hermitian self-dual $Theta-$cyclic and $Theta-$negacyclic codes over the finite chain ring $mathbb{F}_q+umathbb{F}_q$. By defining a Gray map from $R=mathbb{F}_q+umathbb{F}_q$ to $mathbb{F}_{q}^{2}$, we prove that the Gray images of skew cyclic codes of odd length $n$ over $R$ with even characteristic are equivalent to skew quasi-twisted codes of length $2n$ over $mathbb{F}_q$ of index $2$. We also extend an algorithm of Boucher and Ulmer cite{BF3} to construct self-dual skew cyclic codes based on the least common left multiples of non-commutative polynomials over $mathbb{F}_q+umathbb{F}_q$.
Self-dual codes over $Z_2timesZ_4$ are subgroups of $Z_2^alpha timesZ_4^beta$ that are equal to their orthogonal under an inner-product that relates to the binary Hamming scheme. Three types of self-dual codes are defined. For each type, the possible values $alpha,beta$ such that there exist a code $Csubseteq Z_2^alpha timesZ_4^beta$ are established. Moreover, the construction of a $add$-linear code for each type and possible pair $(alpha,beta)$ is given. Finally, the standard techniques of invariant theory are applied to describe the weight enumerators for each type.
Four recursive constructions of permutation polynomials over $gf(q^2)$ with those over $gf(q)$ are developed and applied to a few famous classes of permutation polynomials. They produce infinitely many new permutation polynomials over $gf(q^{2^ell})$ for any positive integer $ell$ with any given permutation polynomial over $gf(q)$. A generic construction of permutation polynomials over $gf(2^{2m})$ with o-polynomials over $gf(2^m)$ is also presented, and a number of new classes of permutation polynomials over $gf(2^{2m})$ are obtained.