id: 01461548 dt: a an: 01461548 au: Wood, Jay A. ti: Factoring the semigroup determinant of a finite commutative chain ring. so: Buchmann, Johannes (ed.) et al., Coding theory, cryptography and related areas. Proceedings of an international conference, Guanajuato, Mexico, April 1998. Berlin: Springer. 249-259 (2000). py: 2000 pu: Berlin: Springer la: EN cc: E.4 ut: semigroup determinant; finite commutative chain ring; characters; extension theorem; general weight functions ci: li: ab: Summary: The semigroup determinant of a finite commutative chain ring factors completely into linear factors involving the characters of the group of units of the ring. The factorization proves the equivalence of two approaches to the extension theorem for general weight functions on linear codes over finite commutative chain rings. rv: