Polynomial Invariant Theory and Shape Enumerator of Self-Dual Codes in the NRT-Metric

Abstract

In this paper we consider self-dual NRT-codes, that is, self-dual codes in the metric space endowed with the Niederreiter-Rosenbloom-Tsfasman (NRT-metric). We use polynomial invariant theory to describe the shape enumerator of a binary self-dual, doubly even self-dual, and doubly-doubly even self dual NRT-code $C\subseteq M_{n,2}({\mathbb{F}}_2)$. Motivated by these results we describe the number of invariant polinomials that we must find to describe the shape enumerator of a self-dual NRT-code of $M_{n,s}({\mathbb{F}}_2)$. We define the ordered flip of a matrix $A\in M_{k,ns}({\mathbb{F}}_q)$ and present some constructions of self-dual NRT-codes over ${\mathbb{F}}_q$. We further give an application of ordered flip to the classification of bidimensional self-dual NRT-codes.