The dual codes of two classes of LCD BCH codes

Abstract

Cyclic BCH codes and negacyclic BCH codes form important subclasses of cyclic codes and negacyclic codes, respectively, and can produce optimal linear codes in many cases. To the best of our knowledge, there are few results on the dual codes of cyclic and negacyclic BCH codes. In this paper, we study the dual codes of narrow-sense cyclic BCH codes of length $q^m+1$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, where $q$ is an odd prime power, and the dual codes of narrow-sense negacyclic BCH codes of length $\frac{q^{m}+1}{2}$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$, where $q$ is an odd prime power satisfying $q\equiv 3~({\rm mod}~4)$. Some lower bounds on the minimum distances of the dual codes are established, which are very close to the true minimum distances of the dual codes in many cases. Sufficient and necessary conditions for the even-like subcodes of narrow-sense cyclic BCH codes of length $q^{m}+1$ being cyclic dually-BCH codes are given in terms of designed distances, where $q$ is odd and $m$ is odd or $m\equiv 2~({\rm mod~}4)$. The concept of negacyclic dually-BCH codes is proposed, and sufficient and necessary conditions in terms of designed distances are presented to ensure that narrow-sense negacyclic BCH codes of length $\frac{q^{m}+1}{2}$ are dually-BCH codes, where $q\equiv 3~({\rm mod}~4)$.