Cyclic codes form an important class of codes. They have very interesting algebraic structure. Furthermore, they are equivalent to many important codes, such as binary Hamming codes, Golay codes and BCH codes. Minimal codewords in linear codes are widely used in constructing decoding algorithms and studying linear secret sharing scheme. In this paper, we show that in the binary cyclic code all ...

The theory of cyclic linear codes in its ring-theoretic formulation is a core topic of classical coding theory. A simplified approach is in my textbook [1]. The language of ring theory is not needed. We will present a self-contained description of the more general theory of cyclic additive codes using the same method. This includes cyclic quantum stabilizer codes as a special case. The basic in...

Let R = Zq + uZq, where q = p and u = 0. In this paper, some structural properties of cyclic codes and quasi-cyclic (QC) codes over the ring R are considered. A QC code of length ln with index l over R is viewed both as in the conventional row circulant form and also as an R[x]/(x − 1)-submodule of GR(R, l)[x]/(x − 1), where GR(R, l) is the Galois extension ring of degree l over R. A necessary ...