Abstract. We show why Frobenius rings are vital in coding theory and give a very short self-contained proof which shows how anyone can tell if a finite commutative ring is Frobenius with elementary observations from coding theory.
Biography. Steven Dougherty is the author of over 150 publications including two books, one on coding theory and one on combinatorics. His work has appeared in journals for pure mathematics, applied mathematics, engineering, and computer science and has published with
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