Bounds and MacWilliams Identities for codes over Artinian rings

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Main Authors: Camps-Moreno, Eduardo, Espinosa-Valdéz, Carlos, López, Hiram H., Núñez-Betancourt, Luis, Pitones, Yuriko
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Published: 2025
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author Camps-Moreno, Eduardo
Espinosa-Valdéz, Carlos
López, Hiram H.
Núñez-Betancourt, Luis
Pitones, Yuriko
author_facet Camps-Moreno, Eduardo
Espinosa-Valdéz, Carlos
López, Hiram H.
Núñez-Betancourt, Luis
Pitones, Yuriko
contents This work develops new foundations for the theory of linear codes over local Artinian commutative rings. We use algebraic invariants such as the socle, type, length, and minimal number of generators to measure the size of codes. We prove a relation between the type of a code and the free rank of its dual over Frobenius rings, extending previous results for chain rings. We also provide new upper bounds for the Hamming distance in terms of the length and type of a code and and conditions under which the dual of an MDS code remains MDS for general Artinian rings. The latter result is obtained by reducing to Frobenius rings via Nagata idealizations, which, to the best of our knowledge, had not been used in coding theory before. We introduce a conceptually different version of the weight enumerator polynomial. This enumerator is meaningful even in the case of infinite rings and yields new applications in the finite setting. Using this polynomial, we prove a MacWilliams identity that holds over Frobenius rings.
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spellingShingle Bounds and MacWilliams Identities for codes over Artinian rings
Camps-Moreno, Eduardo
Espinosa-Valdéz, Carlos
López, Hiram H.
Núñez-Betancourt, Luis
Pitones, Yuriko
Commutative Algebra
Primary 11T71, 13D40, Secondary 13H10, 13P25, 14G50
This work develops new foundations for the theory of linear codes over local Artinian commutative rings. We use algebraic invariants such as the socle, type, length, and minimal number of generators to measure the size of codes. We prove a relation between the type of a code and the free rank of its dual over Frobenius rings, extending previous results for chain rings. We also provide new upper bounds for the Hamming distance in terms of the length and type of a code and and conditions under which the dual of an MDS code remains MDS for general Artinian rings. The latter result is obtained by reducing to Frobenius rings via Nagata idealizations, which, to the best of our knowledge, had not been used in coding theory before. We introduce a conceptually different version of the weight enumerator polynomial. This enumerator is meaningful even in the case of infinite rings and yields new applications in the finite setting. Using this polynomial, we prove a MacWilliams identity that holds over Frobenius rings.
title Bounds and MacWilliams Identities for codes over Artinian rings
topic Commutative Algebra
Primary 11T71, 13D40, Secondary 13H10, 13P25, 14G50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05850