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We define additive skew G-codes over finite fields and discuss several dualities attached to these codes. We examine the properties of self-dual skew G-codes and in particular we show that the dual, under any duality, of an additive skew G-code is also an additive skew G-code. Additionally, we propose a matrix construction for additive skew G-codes and use it to construct several examples of extremal self-dual additive skew G-codes over the finite field F 4 . Such codes have a strong connection to quantum error correcting codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we study codes generated by elements that come from group matrix rings. We present a matrix construction which we use to generate codes in two different ambient spaces: the matrix ring M k (R) and the ring R, where R is the commutative Frobenius ring. We show that codes over the ring M k (R) are one sided ideals in the group matrix ring M k (R) G and the corresponding codes over the ring R are G k -codes of length kn. Additionally, we give a generator matrix for self-dual codes, which consist of the mentioned above matrix construction. We employ this generator matrix to search for binary self-dual codes with parameters [72, 36, 12] and find new singly-even and doubly-even codes of this type. In particular, we construct 16 new Type I and 4 new Type II binary [72, 36, 12] self-dual codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We define a self-dual code over a finite abelian group in terms of an arbitrary duality on the ambient space. We determine when additive self-dual codes exist over abelian groups for any duality and describe various constructions for these codes. We prove that there must exist self-dual codes under any duality for codes over a finite abelian group Z p e . They exist for all lengths when p is prime and e is even; all even lengths when p is an odd prime with p ≡ 1 (mod 4) and e is odd with e > 1 ; and all lengths that are 0 (mod 4) when p is an odd prime with p ≡ 3 (mod 4) and e is odd with e > 1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]