Sum-rank product codes and bounds on the minimum distance (Q2123308)

\textit{U. Martínez-Peñas} introduced the family of cyclic-skew-cyclic codes endowed with the sum-rank metric [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 67, No. 8, 5149--5167 (2021; Zbl 1486.94178)]. Inspired by this work, the authors of the paper under review consider the tensor product of a cyclic code endowed with the Hamming metric with a skew-cyclic code endowed with the rank-metric, both defined over the same field \(\mathbb{F}\). Such a product code turns out to be a cyclic-skew-cyclic code which naturally inherits the sum-rank metric. A group theoretical description of these codes is given, after investigating the semilinear isometries in the sum-rank metric. As a nice application, the authors provide a generalization of the Roos and the Hartmann-Tzeng bounds for cyclic-skew-cyclic codes endowed with the sum-rank metric.