Self-Dual Codes

Self-dual codes are important because many of the best codes known are of this type and they have a rich mathematical theory. Topics covered in this survey include codes over F_2, F_3, F_4, F_q, Z_4, Z_m, shadow codes, weight enumerators, Gleason-Pierce theorem, invariant theory, Gleason theorems, bounds, mass formulae, enumeration, extremal codes, open problems. There is a comprehensive bibliography.Comment: 136 page

Hadamard matrices of orders 60 and 64 with automorphisms of orders 29 and 31

A classification of Hadamard matrices of order $2p+2$ with an automorphism of order $p$ is given for $p=29$ and $31$. The ternary self-dual codes spanned by the newly found Hadamard matrices of order $60$ with an automorphism of order $29$ are computed, as well as the binary doubly even self-dual codes of length $120$ with generator matrices defined by related Hadamard designs. Several new ternary near-extremal self-dual codes, as well as binary near-extremal doubly even self-dual codes with previously unknown weight enumerators are found.Comment: 21 page

New extremal binary self-dual codes of length 68 via short kharaghani array over f_2 + uf_2

In this work, new construction methods for self-dual codes are given. The methods use the short Kharaghani array and a variation of it. These are applicable to any commutative Frobenius ring. We apply the constructions over the ring F_2 + uF_2 and self-dual Type I [64, 32, 12]_2-codes with various weight enumerators obtained as Gray images. By the use of an extension theorem for self-dual codes we were able to construct 27 new extremal binary self-dual codes of length 68. The existence of the extremal binary self-dual codes with these weight enumerators was previously unknown.Comment: 10 pages, 5 table

Ternary extremal four-negacirculant self-dual codes

In this note, we give basic properties of ternary four-negacirculant self-dual codes. By exhaustive computer search based on the properties, we complete a classification of ternary extremal four-negacirculant self-dual codes of lengths 40, 44, 48, 52 and 60.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2303.0505

New examples of self-dual near-extremal ternary codes of length 48 derived from 2-(47,23,11) designs

In a recent paper [M. Araya, M. Harada, Some restrictions on the weight enumerators of near-extremal ternary self-dual codes and quaternary Hermitian self-dual codes, Des. Codes Cryptogr., 91 (2023), 1813--1843], Araya and Harada gave examples of self-dual near-extremal ternary codes of length 48 for $145$ distinct values of the number $A_{12}$ of codewords of minimum weight 12, and raised the question about the existence of codes for other values of $A_{12}$. In this note, we use symmetric 2-$(47,23,11)$ designs with an automorphism group of order 6 to construct self-dual near-extremal ternary codes of length 48 for $150$ new values of $A_{12}$.Comment: 7 page