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Bounds on quasi-cyclic codes over finite chain rings

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In this short correspondence, we mainly consider quasi-cyclic (QC) codes over finite chain rings. We study module structures and trace representations of QC codes, which lead to some lower bounds on the minimum Hamming distance of QC codes.

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This research is supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2013CB834204), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61171082 and 61301137).

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Gao, J., Shen, L. & Fu, FW. Bounds on quasi-cyclic codes over finite chain rings. J. Appl. Math. Comput. 50, 577–587 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12190-015-0885-7

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