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We determine the number of symmetric dualities on the $ s $-fold cross product of the cyclic group of order $ 2, $ which is the additive group of the finite field $ {\mathbb{F}}_{2^s}. $ We show that the ratio of symmetric dualities over all dualities goes to $ 0 $ as $ s $ goes to infinity.We also prove a surprising result that given any two binary codes $ C $ and $ D $ of the same length $ n $ with $ |C||D| = 2^n $, then viewing them as groups there is a symmetric duality $ M $ with $ C^M = D $, which also relates their weight enumerators as additive codes in a group via the MacWilliams relations. Using this theorem we show that any additive code in this setting can be viewed as an additive complementary dual code of length $ 1 $ with respect to some duality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We describe skew G-codes, which are codes that are the ideals in a skew group ring, where the ring is a finite commutative Frobenius ring and G is an arbitrary finite group. These codes generalize many of the well-known classes of codes such as cyclic, quasicyclic, constacyclic codes, skew cyclic, skew quasicyclic and skew constacyclic codes. Additionally, using the skew G-matrices, we can generalize almost all the known constructions in the literature for 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]

Construction of maximal entanglement-assisted quantum error correction (EAQEC) codes is one of the fundamental problems of quantum computing and quantum information. The objective of this paper is twofold: firstly, to obtain all possible construction matrices of the linear codes over the skew group ring F 4 ⋊ φ G , where G is the cyclic and dihedral groups of finite orders; and secondly, to obtain some good maximal EAQEC codes over the finite field F 4 by using skew construction matrices. Additionally, to speed up the computational search time, we employ a nature inspired heuristic optimisation algorithm, the virus optimisation (VO) algorithm. With our method, we obtain a number of good maximal EAQEC codes over the finite field F 4 in a reasonably short time. In particular, we improve the lower bounds of 18 maximal EAQEC codes that exist in the literature. Moreover, some of our EAQEC codes turn out to be also maximum distance separable (MDS) codes. Also, by using our construction matrices, we provide counterexamples to Theorems 4 and 5 of Lai et al. (Quantum Inf Process 13(4):957–990, 2014), on the non-existence of maximal EAQEC codes with parameters [ [ n , 1 , n ; n - 1 ] ] and [ [ n , n - 1 , 2 ; 1 ] ] for an even length n. We also give a counterexample to another Theorem found in Lai and Ashikhmin (IEEE Trans Inf Theory 64:(1), 622–639, 2018), which states that there is no entanglement-assisted stabilizer code with parameters [ [ 4 , 2 , 3 ; 2 ] ] 4. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we present a number of generator matrices of the form [ I 2 n | τ 2 (v) ] , where I 2 n is the 2 n × 2 n identity matrix, v is an element in the group matrix ring M 2 (R) G and where R is a finite commutative Frobenius ring and G is a finite group of order 18. We employ these generator matrices and search for binary [ 72 , 36 , 12 ] self-dual codes directly over the finite field F 2. As a result, we find 134 Type I and 1 Type II codes of this length, with parameters in their weight enumerators that were not known in the literature before. We tabulate all of our findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]