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New cubic self-dual codes of length 54, 60 and 66
We study the construction of quasi-cyclic self-dual codes, especially of
binary cubic ones. We consider the binary quasi-cyclic codes of length 3\ell
with the algebraic approach of [9]. In particular, we improve the previous
results by constructing 1 new binary [54, 27, 10], 6 new [60, 30, 12] and 50
new [66, 33, 12] cubic self-dual codes. We conjecture that there exist no more
binary cubic self-dual codes with length 54, 60 and 66.Comment: 8 page
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