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Cyclic, negacyclic and constacyclic codes are part of a larger class of codes called polycyclic codes; namely, those codes which can be viewed as ideals of a factor ring of a polynomial ring. The structure of the ambient ring of polycyclic codes over GR(p a , m) and generating sets for its ideals are considered. It is shown that these generating sets are strong Groebner bases. A method for finding such sets in the case that a = 2 is also given. The Hamming distance of certain constacyclic codes of length ηp s and 2ηp s over Fpm is computed. A method, which determines the Hamming distance of the constacyclic codes of length ηp s and 2ηp s over GR(p a , m), where (η, p) = 1, is described. In particular, the Hamming distance of all cyclic codes of length p s over GR(p 2 , m) and all negacyclic codes of length 2p s over Fpm is determined explicitly.

Dual codes are defined with respect to non-degenerate sesquilinear or bilinear forms over a finite Frobenius ring. These dual codes have the properties one expects from a dual code: they satisfy a double-dual property, they have cardinality complementary to that of the primal code, and they satisfy the MacWilliams identities for the Hamming weight.2010 MSC: 94B05, 15A63

In a paper on the taxonomy of 2-primal rings, examples of various types of rings that are related to commutativity such as reduced, symmetric, duo, reversible and PS I were given in order to show that the ring class inclusions were strict. Many of the rings given in the examples were infinite. In this paper, where possible, examples of minimal finite rings of the various types are given. Along with the rings in the previous taxonomy, NI, abelian and reflexive rings are also included.

Marks showed that F2Q8, the F2 group algebra over the quaternion group, is a reversible nonsymmetric ring, then questioned whether or not this ring is minimal with respect to cardinality. In this work, it is shown that the cardinality of a minimal reversible nonsymmetric ring is indeed 256. Furthermore, it is shown that although F2Q8 is a duo ring, there are also examples of minimal reversible nonsymmetric rings which are nonduo.

We study codes over the commutative local Frobenius rings of order 16 with maximal ideals of size 8. We define a weight preserving Gray map and study the images of these codes as binary codes. We study self-dual codes and determine when they exist.