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Weighing Matrices and Self-Orthogonal Quaternary Codes

Chris Charnes1,2, Jennifer Seberry 1,2
1 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, 3052, Australia.
2 Centre for Computer Security Research, School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia.

Abstract

We consider families of linear self-orthogonal and self-dual codes over the ring Z4, which are generated by weighing matrices W(n,k) with k0(mod4), whose entries are interpreted as elements of the ring Z4. We obtain binary formally self-dual codes of minimal Hamming distance 4 by applying the Gray map to the quaternary codes generated by W(n,4).