Chinese product of constacyclic and cyclic codes over finite rings

In this paper, we study the Gray images of the Chinese product of constacyclic and cyclic codes over a finite ring. We first introduce the Chinese product of constacyclic and cyclic codes over the finite ring. We then define a Gray map between codes over the finite ring and a finite field. We prove that the Gray image of the Chinese product of constacyclic codes over the finite ring is a distance-invariant quasi-cyclic code over the finite field. We also prove that each code over the finite field, which is the Gray image of the Chinese product of cyclic codes over the finite ring, is permutation equivalent to a quasi-cyclic code.