By applying the theory of linear algebra, one can obtain some properties of these codes which generalize several well known results for free cyclic codes represented in [1,4].
Mathematics Subject Classification: 94B05, 11T71, 47A15Keywords: finite chain rings, free cyclic codes, invariant submodules
Preliminary NotesLet R be a finite chain ring and R n the R-module of rank n consisting of row vectors over R. We writen is called a cyclic code of length n if (a n−1 , a 0 , . . . , a n−2 ) ∈ C, for all (a 0 , a 1 , . . . , a n−1 ) ∈ C., where I n−1 is the identity matrix of order n − 1, and denote by ε i the vector in R n with zeros every where but in position i that holds, i = 0, 1, . . . , n − 1. Then {ε 0 , ε 1 , . . . , ε n−1 } is the standard R-basis of R n . We denote by T the set of R-linear transformation of R n . Then T is an R-algebra with operations of linear transformations and scalar multiplications with elements of R.