Negacyclic duadic codes

This paper extends the concepts from cyclic duadic codes to ne-acyclic codes over power) of oddly even length. Generalizations of defining sets, multipliers, splittings, even-like and odd-like codes are given. Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the existence of self-dual negacyclic codes over F-q and the existence of splittings of 2N, where N is odd. Other negacyclic codes can be extended by two coordinates in a way to create self-dual codes with familiar parameters. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.