id: 06062672 dt: j an: 06062672 au: Solé, Patrick; Yemen, Olfa ti: Binary quasi-cyclic codes of index 2 and skew polynomial rings. so: Finite Fields Appl. 18, No. 4, 685-699 (2012). py: 2012 pu: Elsevier Science (Academic Press), San Diego, CA la: EN cc: ut: quasi-cyclic codes; skew polynomial rings; self dual codes; standard bases ci: li: doi:10.1016/j.ffa.2012.02.002 ab: Summary: We present a study of the factorization of the polynomial $X^{m} - 1$ in $M_{2}(\Bbb F_{2})$[X] and we determine the period of any reversible polynomial of this polynomial ring by using skew polynomial rings. These results are applied to the construction of the class of quasi-cyclic codes $Ω(P)$ introduced by Cayrel et al. Furthermore, we present a new construction of the self dual subclass. rv: