Dual codes of projective planes of order 25

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The authors study the minimum weight of the dual linear code over GF\((5)\) of the linear code defined by the incidence matrix of the points with the lines of a projective plane of order 25. They prove that this minimum weight \(d^\perp\) is either 42, or \(44 \leq d^\perp \leq 50\). If a Baer subplane is present in the projective plane of order 25, then \(d^\perp\) is either \(42,44\) or 45, and they also describe how the possible codewords having these minimum weights \(42,44,45\) look like. In particular, their results show that the dual 5-ary linear code of the desarguesian projective plane PG\((2,25)\) has minimum weight 45, and that the minimum weight codewords are equal to a scalar multiple of \(v^\beta-v^l\), where \(v^\beta\) is the incidence vector of a Baer subplane \(\beta\) of PG\((2,25)\) and where \(v^l\) is the incidence vector of a line \(l\) of this projective plane of order 25 which also is a line of \(\beta\).











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