Representations of Lie algebras and coding theory (Q2905183)

The author studies binary and ternary orthogonal codes and their relation to finite-dimensional modules of simple Lie algebras. In fact, it turns out that the Weyl groups of the Lie algebras are symmetries of the related codes. It is shown that certain weight matrices of \(sl(n, \mathfrak{C})\) and \(so(n,\mathfrak{C})\) generate doubly-even binary orthogonal codes and ternary orthogonal codes with large minimal distances. Furthermore, in case of \(F_4\), \(E_6\), \(E_7\) , and \(E_8\) ternary orthogonal codes with large minimal distances are generated by the minimal irreducible and the adjoint modules, resp.