Linear codes associated with the Desarguesian ovoids in Q^+(7,q)

Abstract: The Desarguesian ovoids in the orthogonal polar space

Q^{+} (7, q)

with

q

even have first been introduced by Kantor by examining the

8

-dimensional absolutely irreducible modular representations of

e x t P G L (2, q^{3})

. We investigate this module for all prime power values of

q

. The shortest

e x t P G L (2, q^{3})

-orbit

O

gives the Desarguesian ovoid in

Q^{+} (7, q)

for even

q

and it is known to give a complete partial ovoid of the symplectic polar space

W (7, q)

for odd~

q

. We determine the hyperplane sections of

O

. As a corollary, we obtain the parameters

[q^{3} + 1, 8, q^{3} - q^{2} - q]_{q}

and the weight distribution of the associated

m a t h b b F_{q}

-linear code

C_{O}

and the parameters

[q^{3} + 1, q^{3} - 7, 5]_{q}

of the dual code

C_{O}^{p} e r p

for

q g e 4

. We also show that both codes

C_{O}

and

C_{O}^{p} e r p

are length-optimal for all prime power values of

q

.

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