From Springer Nature via Jisc Publications RouterHistory: received 2020-09-25, accepted 2021-03-24, registration 2021-03-25, online 2021-05-03, pub-electronic 2021-05-03, pub-print 2021-09Publication status: PublishedAbstract: In this work, we study a new family of rings, Bj, k, whose base field is the finite field Fpr. We study the structure of this family of rings and show that each member of the family is a commutative Frobenius ring. We define a Gray map for the new family of rings, study G-codes, self-dual G-codes, and reversible G-codes over this family. In particular, we show that the projection of a G-code over Bj, k to a code over Bl, m is also a G-code and the image under the Gray map of a self-dual G-code is also a self-dual G-code when the characteristic of the base field is 2. Moreover, we show that the image of a reversible G-code under the Gray map is also a reversible G2j+k-code. The Gray images of these codes are shown to have a rich automorphism group which arises from the algebraic structure of the rings and the groups. Finally, we show that quasi-G codes, which are the images of G-codes under the Gray map, are also Gs-codes for some s
