Nonexistence of certain singly even self-dual codes with minimal shadow (Q1700768)

Summary: It is known that there is no extremal singly even self-dual \([n,n/2,d]\) code with minimal shadow for \((n,d)=(24m+2,4m+4)\), \((24m+4,4m+4)\), \((24m+6,4m+4)\), \((24m+10,4m+4)\) and \((24m+22,4m+6)\). In this paper, we study singly even self-dual codes with minimal shadow having minimum weight \(d-2\) for these \((n,d)\). For \(n=24m+2\), \(24m+4\) and \(24m+10\), we show that the weight enumerator of a singly even self-dual \([n,n/2,4m+2]\) code with minimal shadow is uniquely determined and we also show that there is no singly even self-dual \([n,n/2,4m+2]\) code with minimal shadow for \(m \geq 155\), \(m \geq 156\) and \(m \geq 160\), respectively. We demonstrate that the weight enumerator of a singly even self-dual code with minimal shadow is not uniquely determined for parameters \([24m+6,12m+3,4m+2]\) and \([24m+22,12m+11,4m+4]\).