Some optimal self-orthogonal and self-dual codes Original Research Article

The binary optimal self-orthogonal codes of dimension image and length image are classified. They are used for constructing self-dual codes of lengths 40, 42, and 44. All optimal binary self-dual codes of lengths 42 and 44 which have an automorphism of order 5 with four independent cycles are obtained up to equivalence. All optimal self-dual codes of lengths 40, 42 and 44 which have an automorphism of order 3 with six independent cycles are constructed. Some of them are the first known codes with their weight enumerators.