The purpose of this paper is to study codes over finite principal ideal rings. To do this, we begin with codes over finite chain rings as a natural generalization of codes over Galois rings GR(pe, l) (including Zpe). We give sufficient conditions on the existence of MDS codes over finite chain rings and on the existence of self-dual codes over finite chain rings. We also construct MDS self-dual...

In this paper, we give an important isomorphism between contacyclic codes and cyclic codes,over finite principal ideal rings.Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of non-trivial cyclic self-dual codes over finite principal ideal rings are given.

It is shown that a commutative reduced ring R is a Baer ring if and only if it is a CS-ring; if and only if every dense subset of Spec (R) containing Max (R) is an extremally disconnected space; if and only if every non-zero ideal of R is essential in a principal ideal generated by an idempotent.

We observe that the class of left and right artinian left and right morphic rings agrees with the class of artinian principal ideal rings. For R an artinian principal ideal ring and G a group, we characterize when RG is a principal ideal ring; for finite groups G, this characterizes when RG is a left and right morphic ring. This extends work of Passman, Sehgal and Fisher in the case when R is a...