The lengths of Hermitian self-dual extended duadic codes (Q863912)

It is known that duadic codes are a family of cyclic codes over fields that generalize quadratic residue codes from prime to composite lengths. In this paper, the authors study for which \(n\) there exist duadic codes over \(\mathbb{F}_{q^2}\) of length \(n\) the extension of which by a suitable parity-check is self-dual for the Hermitian scalar product \(\sum^{n+1}_{i=1} x_i y^q_i\). An arithmetic condition bearing on the divisors of \(n\) has also been derived. In Appendix, based on analytic number theory, the authors derive asymptotic estimates for \(x\) large on \(A_q(x)\), the number of integers \(\leq x\) that are split by the multiplier \(\mu_{-q}\), and on \(D_q(x)\), the number of possible lengths \(\leq x\) of a duadic code.