Families of Cyclic Codes over Finite Chain Rings

A major difficulty in quantum computation and communication is preventing and correcting errors in the quantum bits. Most of the research in this area has focused on stabilizer codes derived from self-orthogonal cyclic error-correcting codes over finite fields. Our goal is to develop a similar theory for self-orthogonal cyclic codes over the class of finite chain rings which have been proven to also produce stabilizer codes. We also will discuss these restrictions on families of cyclic codes, including, but not limited to quadratic residue codes and Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes. Finally, we will extend the concepts of weight enumerators to the class of Frobenius rings and use them to derive bounds for our codes

On Quadratic Residue Codes Over Finite Commutative Chain Rings

Codes over finite rings were initiated in the early 1970s, And they have received much attention after it was proved that important families of binary non-linear codes are images under a Gray map of linear codes over Z4. In this thesis we consider a special families of cyclic codes namely Quadratic residue codes over finite chain rings F2 + uF2 with u2 = 0 and F2 + uF2 + u2F2 with u3 = 0. We study these codes in term of their idempotent generators, and show that these codes have many good properties which are analogous in many respect to properties of Quadratic residue codes over finite fields, also, we study Quadratic residue codes over the ring Z2m, and then generalize this study to Quadratic residue codes over finite commutative chainring Rm-1 = F2 + uF2 + : : : + um-1F2 with um =