Constructions of self-dual codes and formally self-dual codes over rings

Abstract

We shall describe several families of X-rings and construct self-dual and formally self-dual codes over these rings. We then use a Gray map to construct binary formally self-dual codes from these codes. In several cases, we produce binary formally self-dual codes with larger minimum distances than known self-dual codes. We also produce non-linear codes which are better than the best known linear codes.