Nonexistence of certain singly even self-dual codes with minimal shadow

It is known that there is no extremal singly even self-dual $[n,n/2,d]$ code with minimal shadow for $(n,d)=(24m+2,4m+4)$, $(24m+4,4m+4)$, $(24m+6,4m+4)$, $(24m+10,4m+4)$ and $(24m+22,4m+6)$. In this paper, we study singly even self-dual codes with minimal shadow having minimum weight $d-2$ for these $(n,d)$. For $n=24m+2$, $24m+4$ and $24m+10$, we show that the weight enumerator of a singly even self-dual $[n,n/2,4m+2]$ code with minimal shadow is uniquely determined and we also show that there is no singly even self-dual $[n,n/2,4m+2]$ code with minimal shadow for $m \ge 155$, $m \ge 156$ and $m \ge 160$, respectively. We demonstrate that the weight enumerator of a singly even self-dual code with minimal shadow is not uniquely determined for parameters $[24m+6,12m+3,4m+2]$ and $[24m+22,12m+11,4m+4]$.Comment: 16 page

Singly even self-dual codes of length 24k+1024k+10 and minimum weight 4k+24k+2

Currently, the existence of an extremal singly even self-dual code of length $24k+10$ is unknown for all nonnegative integers $k$. In this note, we study singly even self-dual $[24k+10,12k+5,4k+2]$ codes. We give some restrictions on the possible weight enumerators of singly even self-dual $[24k+10,12k+5,4k+2]$ codes with shadows of minimum weight at least $5$ for $k=2,3,4,5$. We discuss a method for constructing singly even self-dual codes with minimal shadow. As an example, a singly even self-dual $[82,41,14]$ code with minimal shadow is constructed for the first time. In addition, as neighbors of the code, we construct singly even self-dual $[82,41,14]$ codes with weight enumerator for which no singly even self-dual code was previously known to exist.Comment: 16 page

New MDS Self-dual Codes over Finite Fields of Odd Characteristic

In this paper, we produce new classes of MDS self-dual codes via (extended) generalized Reed-Solomon codes over finite fields of odd characteristic. Among our constructions, there are many MDS self-dual codes with new parameters which have never been reported. For odd prime power $q$ with $q$ square, the total number of lengths for MDS self-dual codes over $\mathbb{F}_q$ presented in this paper is much more than those in all the previous results