• DocumentCode
    1552876
  • Title

    Characterization of quaternary extremal codes of lengths 18 and 20

  • Author

    Huffman, W. Cary

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math. Sci., Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL, USA
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    9/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1613
  • Lastpage
    1616
  • Abstract
    We prove that, up to equivalence, there is a unique extremal quaternary Hermitian self-dual code of length 18, and that there are two inequivalent extremal quaternary Hermitian self-dual codes of length 20
  • Keywords
    Galois fields; dual codes; linear codes; matrix algebra; Galois field; code length; equivalent extremal self dual codes; extremal quaternary Hermitian self dual code; inequivalent extremal self dual codes; linear quaternary code; matrix; quaternary extremal codes; Communication system control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.623160
  • Filename
    623160