Frobenius Local Rings of Order <i>p</i>^4<i>m</i>

Abstract

Suppose R is a finite commutative local ring, then it is known that R has four positive integers p,n,m,k called the invariants of R, where p is a prime number. This paper investigates the structure and classification up to isomorphism of local rings with residue field Fpm and of length 4. Specifically, it gives a comprehensive characterization of Frobenius local rings of order p4m. Furthermore, we provide a detailed enumeration of the classes of all such rings with respect to their invariants p,n,m,k. Finite Frobenius rings are particularly advantageous for coding theory. This suitability arises from the fact that two classical theorems by MacWilliams, the Extension Theorem and the MacWilliams relations for symmetrized weight enumerators, can be generalized from finite fields to finite Frobenius rings.

Keywords

• Frobenius rings
• coding over rings
• local rings
• isomorphism classes