A note on the duals of skew constacyclic codes

Abstract: Let $\mathbb{F}q$ be a finite field with $q$ elements and denote by $\theta : \mathbb{F}_q\to\mathbb{F}_q$ an automorphism of $\mathbb{F}_q$. In this paper, we deal with skew constacyclic codes, that is, linear codes of $\mathbb{F}_q^n$ which are invariant under the action of a semi-linear map $\Phi{\alpha,\theta}:\mathbb{F}q^n\to\mathbb{F}_q^n$, defined by $\Phi{\alpha,\theta}(a_0,...,a_{n-2}, a_{n-1}):=(\alpha \theta(a_{n-1}),\theta(a_0),...,\theta(a_{n-2}))$ for some $\alpha\in\mathbb{F}_q\setminus{0}$ and $n\geq 2$. In particular, we study some algebraic and geometric properties of their dual codes and we give some consequences and research results on $1$-generator skew quasi-twisted codes and on MDS skew constacyclic codes.