Bulletin of the
Korean Mathematical Society BKMS

In this work, we consider constacyclic and cyclic self-dual codes over the rings $R_k$. We start with theoretical existence results for constacyclic and cyclic self-dual codes of any length over $R_k$ and then construct cyclic self-dual codes over $R_1 = \F_2+u\F_2$ of even lengths from lifts of binary cyclic self-dual codes. We classify all free cyclic self-dual codes over $R_1$ of even lengths for which non-trivial such codes exist. In particular we demonstrate that our constructions provide a counter example to a claim made by Batoul et al. in \cite{Batoul} and we explain why their claim fails.

Keywords: cyclic codes, constacyclic codes, cyclic self-dual codes, lift, projection

MSC numbers: Primary 94B05, 94B99; Secondary 11T71, 13M99