Abstract:
This paper presents some basic theorems giving the structure of cyclic codes of length n over the ring of integers modulo pa and over the p-adic numbers, where p is a prime not dividing n. An especially interesting example is the 2-adic cyclic code of length 7 with generator polynomial X3+λX2+(λ-1)X-1, where λ satisfies λ2 - λ + 2 = 0. This is the 2-adic generalization of both the binary Hamming code and the quaternary octacode (the latter being equivalent to the Nordstrom-Robinson code). Other examples include the 2-adic Golay code of length 24 and the 3-adic Golay code of length 12. © 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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