On Some Ternary LCD Codes

Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to study $LCD$ codes. Linear code with complementary dual($LCD$) are those codes which have their intersection with their dual code as ${0}$. In this paper we will give rather alternative proof of Massey's theorem\cite{8}, which is one of the most important characterization of $LCD$ codes. Let $LCD[n,k]_3$ denote the maximum of possible values of $d$ among $[n,k,d]$ ternary $LCD$ codes. In \cite{4}, authors have given upper bound on $LCD[n,k]_2$ and extended this result for $LCD[n,k]_q$, for any $q$, where $q$ is some prime power. We will discuss cases when this bound is attained for $q=3$.