Two Classes of Constacyclic Codes With a Square-Root-Like Lower Bound

Constacyclic codes over finite fields are an important class of linear codes as they contain distance-optimal codes and linear codes with best known parameters. They are interesting in theory and practice, as they have the constacyclic structure. In this paper, an infinite class of q-ary negacyclic codes of length $(q^{m}-1)/2$ and an infinite class of q-ary constacyclic codes of length $(q^{m}-1)/(q-1)$ are constructed and analyzed. As a by-product, two infinite classes of ternary negacyclic self-dual codes with a square-root-like lower bound on their minimum distances are presented.