Type IV-II codes over Z4 constructed from generalized bent functions

Abstract

A Type IV-II Z4-code is a self-dual code over Z4 with the property that all Euclidean weights are divisible by eight and all codewords have even Hamming weight. In this paper we use generalized bent functions for a construction of self-orthogonal codes over Z4 of length $2^m$, for $m$ odd, $m \geq 3$, and prove that for $m \geq 5$ those codes can be extended to Type IV-II Z4-codes. From that family of Type IV-II Z4-codes, we obtain a family of self-dual Type II binary codes by using Gray map. We also consider the weight distributions of the obtained codes and the structure of the supports of the minimum weight codewords.