Optimal symbol-pair constacyclic codes of length \(3p\): new conditions and constructions
摘要
In this paper, we establish a new condition for q-ary cyclic codes of length 3p to be optimal in the symbol-pair metric. Using this condition, we demonstrate that some AMDS symbol-pair codes of length 3p previously obtained are valid not only over the prime field of characteristic p but also over arbitrary finite fields of that characteristic. Furthermore, we construct one new family of AMDS symbol-pair cyclic codes with symbol-pair distance 16. The proposed approach relies on the decomposition of generator polynomials and the analysis of consecutive indices of codewords, leading to sharper lower bounds on symbol-pair distances.