Self-Dual Codes with Symplectic Inner Product

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss a kind of Hermitian inner product — symplectic inner product, which is different from the original inner product — Euclidean inner product. According to the definition of symplectic inner product, the codes under the symplectic inner product have better properties than those under the general Hermitian inner product. Here we present the necessary and sufficient condition for judging whether a linear code $C$ over $F_p$ with a generator matrix in the standard form is a symplectic self-dual code. In addition, we give a method for constructing a new symplectic self-dual codes over $F_p$, which is simpler than others.