New Extremal Binary Self-Dual Codes from Block Circulant Matrices and Block Quadratic Residue Circulant Matrices

Determinants of some Special Matrices over Commutative Finite Chain Rings

Circulant matrices over finite fields and over commutative finite chain rings have been of interest due to their nice algebraic structures and wide applications. In many cases, such matrices over rings have a closed connection with diagonal matrices over their extension rings. In this paper, the determinants of diagonal and circulant matrices over commutative finite chain rings $R$ with residue field $\mathbb{F}_q$ are studied. The number of $n\times n$ diagonal matrices over ${R}$ of determinant $a$ is determined for all elements $a$ in $ {R}$ and for all positive integers $n$. Subsequently, …