The Automorphism Group of a Self-Dual [72, 36, 16] Binary Code Does Not Contain Elements of Order 6

DOI10.1109/TIT.2012.2211095MaRDI QIDQ2989679zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martino Borello

Publication date 8 June 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3321

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear codes (general theory) (94B05)

Abstract: The existence of an extremal code of length 72 is a long-standing open problem. Let C be a putative extremal code of length 72 and suppose that C has an automorphism g of order 6. We show that C, as an F_2<g>-module, is the direct sum of two modules, one easily determinable and the other one which has a very restrictive structure. We use this fact to do an exhaustive search and we do not find any code. This proves that the automorphism group of an extremal code of length 72 does not contain elements of order 6.

Cited in

(4)

• Some new results on the self-dual \([120,60,24]\) code
• On involutions in extremal self-dual codes and the dual distance of semi self-dual codes
• On the automorphism group of a binary self-dual \([120, 60, 24]\) code
• The automorphism group of a self-dual \([72,36,16]\) code is not an elementary abelian group of order 8

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