Hulls of cyclic serial codes over a finite chain ring (Q2667089)

The Euclidean hull of a linear code over a finite field, introduced by \textit{E. F. Assmus jun.} and \textit{J. D. Key} in [Discrete Math. 83, No. 2--3, 161--187 (1990; Zbl 0707.51012)], is the intersection of the code and its Euclidean dual. Knowing the Euclidean hull or its dimension can be used to compute the automorphism group of the code or some of its parameters. \textit{S. Jitman} et al. in [Discrete Math. 343, No. 1, Article ID 111621, 18 p. (2020; Zbl 1434.94098)] generalized the notion of Euclidean hull to cyclic codes over \({\mathbb Z}_4\) and obtained an algorithm to determine the type of the Euclidean hull of cyclic codes over \({\mathbb Z}_4\). Generalizing the methods of [Jitman et al., loc. cit.] the authors study the Euclidean hulls of a family of cyclic codes over finite chain rings and obtain an algorithm to compute the parameters of these Euclidean hulls. In particular, they characterize the Galois hulls of cyclic serial codes over finite chain rings, obtain the parameters of the Euclidean hull of cyclic serial codes, and compute the average dimension of the Euclidean hull of cyclic serial codes.