It is well known that cyclic linear codes of length n over a (finite) field F can be characterized in terms of the factors of the polynomial x"-1 in F[x]. This paper investigates cyclic linear codes over arbitrary (not necessarily commutative) finite tings and proves the above characterization to be true for a large class of such codes over these rings. (~) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights...

A number of examples and constructions of local Noetherian domains without finite normalization have been exhibited over the last seventy-five years. We discuss some of these examples, as well as the theory behind them.

For polynomial character sums in finite fields, an analog of the known conjecture on distribution values Kloosterman is proposed.

We prove that self-dual codes exist over all finite commutative Frobenius rings, via their decomposition by the Chinese Remainder Theorem into local rings. We construct non-free self-dual codes under some conditions, using self-dual codes over finite fields, and we also construct free self-dual codes by lifting elements from the base finite field. We generalize the building-up construction for ...

Let F q be a finite field of order q with q = p n , where p is a prime. A multiplicative character χ is a homomorphism from the multiplicative group F * q , ·· to the unit circle. In this note we will mostly give a survey of work on bounds for the character sum x χ(x) over a subset of F q. In Section 5 we give a nontrivial estimate of character sums over subspaces of finite fields. §1. Burgess'...

We prove that Zpn and Zp[t]/(t) are polynomially equivalent if and only if n ≤ 2 or p = 8. For the proof, employing Bernoulli numbers, we provide the polynomials which compute the carry-on part for the addition and multiplication in base p. As a corollary, we characterize finite rings of p elements up to polynomial equivalence.