The automorphism group of the doubly-even [72,36,16] code can only be of order 1, 3 or 5

Authors Steven T. Dougherty, Suat Karadeniz, Bahattin Yildiz

Publication date 20 March 2013

Abstract: We prove that a putative

[72, 36, 16]

code is not the image of linear code over

,

F F_{2} + u F F_{2}

or

F F_{2} + v F F_{2}

, thus proving that the extremal doubly even

[72, 36, 16]

-binary code cannot have an automorphism group containing a fixed point-free involution. Combining this with the previously proved result by Bouyuklieva that such a code cannot have an automorphism group containing an involution with fixed points, we conclude that the automorphism group of the

[72, 36, 16]

-code cannot be of even order, leaving 3 and 5 as the only possibilities.

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