Automorphisms of constant weight codes and of divisible designs

DOI10.1023/A:1008375603014MaRDI QIDQ1974060zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ralph-Hardo Schulz, Antonino Giorgio Spera

Publication date 21 January 2002

Published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008375603014

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupconstant weight codedivisible design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other designs, configurations (05B30) Other finite incidence structures (geometric aspects) (51E30) Other types of codes (94B60)

Review text

After showing how to construct a constant weight code \(C(D)\) from a divisible design \(D\), the authors study how the automorphism groups of \(D\) and \(C(D)\) are related. The main result is the following: Aut\((D)\) induces a faithful group of automorphisms on \(C(D)\), which either is equal to Aut\((C(D))\) or has index equal to \(2\) in Aut\((C(D))\). In the latter case the number of points necessarily is twice the number of the block size. Besides this fundamental relation between designs and codes, the authors provide an extensive list of 28 references including many items with new results on constant weight codes which are relevant for applications.

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