Self-reciprocal and self-conjugate-reciprocal irreducible factors of \(x^n - \lambda\) and their applications (Q2302598)

The authors present some necessary and sufficient conditions under which an irreducible polynomial is self-reciprocal (SR) or self-conjugate-reciprocal (SCR). They also obtain enumeration formulas of SR and SCR irreducible factors of \(x^n-\lambda, \lambda \in \mathbb{F}_q,\) over \(\mathbb{F}_q\). Based on the obtained results the authors also count the numbers of Euclidean and Hermitian LCD constacyclic codes and present new proofs of some well-known results on Euclidean and Hermitian self-dual constacyclic codes.