Ternary and binary codes for a plane of order 12 (Q792952)

This paper presents results on weight enumerators for ternary and binary codes for a plane of order 12 which is a symmetric (157,13,1) design. A result of Mallows and Sloane allows to express the ordinary (Hamming) weight enumerator in terms of 27 parameters; which is shown to reduce to 12 parameters in the present work. The complete weight enumerator is also calculated and a sample of these values is presented. Also, since no comparable theory applies to the binary code which initially has 40 parameters, results are derived reducing this number of parameters to 16. The results presented are of great significance to the area of weight enumerators of codes in coding theory.