Title :
On the automorphism Group of a putative code
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Fayetteville State Univ., NC
fDate :
4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A long standing open question in coding theory is whether a binary self-dual [72,36,16] code exists. It was shown recently that the automorphism group order of such code is equal to 2imiddot3 jmiddot5middot7, 2imiddot3jmiddot7, 2imiddot3jmiddot5, or 2imiddot3 j for some nonnegative integers i and j. We show that the group order is not a multiple of 35 and find that only 22 orders are possible
Keywords :
binary codes; dual codes; group theory; automorphism group; binary self-dual code exist; coding theory; putative code; Binary codes; Computer science; Error correction codes; Instruction sets; Mathematics; Rain; Vectors; Automorphisms; extremal codes; self-dual codes;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIT.2006.871611