The hulls of matrix-product codes over commutative rings and applications (Q2053235)

This paper explores the hull of the matrix product codes over a commutative ring. For a matrix product code \([\mathcal{C}_1, \cdots, \mathcal{C}_s]A\) where \(\mathcal{C}_{1}, \cdots, \mathcal{C}_s\) and linear codes of the same length and A a given matrix, some connections between the hull of \([\mathcal{C}_{1}, \cdots, \mathcal{C}_s]A\) and the hull of \(\mathcal{C}_{1}, \cdots, \mathcal{C}_s\) are provided. This allowed to give some necessary and sufficient conditions for a matrix-product codes to be LCD. Under some assumptions, LCD matrix product codes over the residue field of a finite chain are provided by using torsion codes and the existence of asymptotically good sequences of LCD matrix product codes over finite chain ring is proved.