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We construct two families of few-weight codes for the Lee weight over the ring $R_{k}$ based on two different defining sets. For the first defining set, taking the Gray map, we obtain an infinite family of binary two-weight codes which are in fact $2^{k}$ -fold replicated MacDonald codes. For the second defining set, we obtain two infinite families of few-weight codes. These few-weight codes can be used to implement secret-sharing schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study linear complementary dual four circulant codes of length $4n$ over $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ when $q$ is an odd prime power. When $q^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}}+1$ is divisible by $n$ , we obtain an exact count of linear complementary dual four circulant codes of length $4n$ over $\mathbb{F}_{q}$. For certain values of $n$ and $q$ and assuming Artin’s conjecture for primitive roots, we show that the relative distance of these codes satisfies a modified Gilbert–Varshamov bound. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]