Symbol-Pair Distances of Repeated-Root Negacyclic Codes of Length 2s over Galois Rings

Negacyclic codes of length 2s over the Galois ring GR(2a,m) are linearly ordered under set-theoretic inclusion,i.e.,they are the ideals <(x + 1)i>,0 ≤ i ≤ 2sa,of the chain ring GR(2a,m)[x]/.This structure is used to obtain the symbol-pair distances of all such negacyclic codes.Among others,for the special case when the alphabet is the finite field F2m (i.e.,a =1),the symbol-pair distance distribution of constacyclic codes over F2m verifies the Singleton bound for such symbol-pair codes,and provides all maximum distance separable symbol-pair constacyclic codes of length 2s over F2m.