5-designs related to binary extremal self-dual codes of length \(24m\) (Q2869128)

This paper considers some interesting binary self-orthogonal codes of length \(24m\). Beginning with a self-orthogonal code of length \(n = 24 m\), and taking the minimum weight codewords as blocks obtains a self-orthogonal NEWLINE\[NEWLINE5-\left(24m, 4m + 4, {{5m - 2} \choose {m - 1}} \right)NEWLINE\]NEWLINE design. An interesting problem the authors look at is the converse. They prove that if \(D\) is a self-orthogonal \(5-(120, 24, 8855)\)-design then the code generated by (the blocks of ) \(D\) is self-dual with minimum weight equal to \(16\) or \(24\) and it is expected that the latter is the correct minimum weight. NEWLINENEWLINEA minor comment: Line 5 in the Introduction should read NEWLINE\[NEWLINE |B \cap B'| \equiv 0 \pmod 2.NEWLINE\]NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1253.00023].