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 (qᵐ-1) /2 and an infinite class of q-ary constacyclic codes of length (qᵐ-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.