Linear codes over \(\frac{\mathbb{Z}_4[x]}{\langle{x^2} + 2x \rangle}\) (Q906905)

Codes are studied over the local Frobenius ring \(\mathbb Z_4[x]/ \langle x^2 +2x \rangle.\) The authors describe the ring structure and give a duality preserving Gray map. This, in turn, is used to produce MacWilliams relations for the Lee weight enumerator of codes over this ring. Self-dual codes over this ring are connected via the Gray map to quaternary self-dual codes and to real unimodular lattices. Some different versions of quaternary Reed-Muller codes are shown to be images of linear codes over this ring.