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In this paper, a new class of additive codes which is referred to as ℤ2ℤ2[u]-additive codes is introduced. This is a generalization towards another direction of recently introduced ℤ2ℤ4-additive codes [J. Borges, C. Fernández-Córdoba, J. Pujol, J. Rif´a, and M. Villanueva, ℤ2ℤ4-linear codes: Generator matrices and duality, Designs Codes Cryptogr. 54(2) (2010), pp. 167–179]. ℤ2ℤ4-additive codes have shown to provide a promising class of codes with their algebraic structure and applications such as steganography. The standard generator matrices are established and by introducing orthogonality the parity-check matrices are also obtained. A MacWilliams-type identity that relates the weight enumerator of a code with its dual is proved. Furthermore, a Gray map that maps these codes to binary codes is defined and some examples of optimal codes which are the binary Gray images of ℤ2ℤ2[u]-additive codes are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this correspondence, we study cyclic codes of length n = 2e over the ring R4 = Z4 [x]/(xn - 1). In particular, we derive a closed-form expression for the number of these codes for a given length n. We also study the rank of these codes and derive an expression for that. Furthermore, we give an example in which we study all cyclic codes of length 8. We also study all self-dual codes of length 8 and 16 and classify them according to their type. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]