“…Later, circulant matrices have been shown to have applications in many disciplines, e.g., signal processing, image processing, networked systems, communications, and coding theory. Especially, (nonsingular) circulant matrices over nite elds and over commutative nite chain rings are applied in constructions of various families of linear codes (see [1], [2], [6], [9], [10], [11], [14], [17], [18], [19], and references therein). Circulant matrices have shown to have a closed connection with diagonal matrices (see, for example, [6] and [14]).…”