Modified Quadratic Residue Constructions and New Exermal Binary Self-Dual Codes of Lengths 64, 66 and 68

In this work we consider modified versions of quadratic double circulant and quadratic bordered double circulant constructions over the binary field and the rings F2 +uF2 and F4 +uF4 for different prime values of p. Using these constructions with extensions and neighbors we are able to construct a number of extremal binary self-dual codes of different lengths with new parameters in their weight enumerators. In particular we construct 2 new codes of length 64, 4 new codes of length 66 and 14 new codes of length 68. The binary generator matrices of the new codes are available online at [8]