Characterizations and Properties of Monic Principal Skew Codes over Rings

Abstract

Let A be a ring with identity, σ a ring endomorphism of A that maps the identity to itself, δ a σ -derivation of A , and consider the skew-polynomial ring A X ; σ , δ . When A is a finite field, a Galois ring, or a general ring, some fairly recent literature used A X ; σ , δ to construct new interesting codes (e.g., skew-cyclic and skew-constacyclic codes) that generalize their classical counterparts over finite fields (e.g., cyclic and constacyclic linear codes). This paper presents results concerning monic principal skew codes, called herein monic principal f , σ , δ -codes, where f ∈ A X ; σ , δ is monic. We provide recursive formulas that compute the entries of both a generator matrix and a control matrix of such a code C . When A is a finite commutative ring and σ is a ring automorphism of A , we also give recursive formulas for the entries of a parity-check matrix of C . Also, in this case, with δ = 0 , we present a characterization of monic principal σ -codes whose dual codes are also monic principal σ -codes, and we deduce a characterization of self-dual monic principal σ -codes. Some corollaries concerning monic principal σ -constacyclic codes are also given, and a good number of highlighting examples is provided.