On the Hamming weight enumerators of self-dual codes over \(\mathbb{Z}_k\) (Q1284209)

The paper investigate the Hamming weight enumerators of self-dual codes over the finite field \(\mathbb{F}_q\) with \(q\) elements, where \(q\) is an odd prime power \(\equiv 3\pmod 4\), and over the ring \(\mathbb{Z}_k\) of integers modulo \(k\). The main results are a description of the structures of the rings of invariants to which the Hamming weight enumerators belong for self-dual codes over \(\mathbb{F}_q\) and \(\mathbb{Z}_k\).