On the equivalence of codes and codes with an automorphism having two cycles (Q920923)

This paper presents results giving sufficient conditions under which two codes are equivalent. This technique has been applied to certain binary quasicyclic codes. Self-dual codes of length 2r or \(2r+2\) over arbitrary fields having an automorphism of prime order r have also been examined. This study has further been used to construct and to count the number of inequivalent [2r,r] and \([2r+2,r+1]\) self-dual codes.