Characterization and Enumeration of Complementary Dual Abelian Codes

Abstract: Abelian codes and complementary dual codes form important classes of linear codes that have been extensively studied due to their rich algebraic structures and wide applications. In this paper, a family of abelian codes with complementary dual in a group algebra $\mathbb{F}{p^\nu}[G]$ has been studied under both the Euclidean and Hermitian inner products, where $p$ is a prime, $\nu$ is a positive integer, and $G$ is an arbitrary finite abelian group. Based on the discrete Fourier transform decomposition for semi-simple group algebras and properties of ideas in local group algebras, the characterization of such codes have been given. Subsequently, the number of complementary dual abelian codes in $\mathbb{F}{p^\nu}[G]$ has been shown to be independent of the Sylow $p$-subgroup of $G$ and it has been completely determined for every finite abelian group $G$. In some cases, a simplified formula for the enumeration has been provided as well. The known results for cyclic complementary dual codes can be viewed as corollaries.