We give the necessary and sufficient conditions for the extendability of ternary linear codes of dimension k ≥ 5 with minimum distance d ≡ 1 or 2 (mod 3) from a geometrical point of view.
∗ This work was supported in part by the Bulgarian NSF under Grant MM-901/99In this paper we prove that up to equivalence there exist 158 binary [70, 35, 12] self-dual and 119 binary [72, 36, 12] self-dual doubly-even codes all of which have an automorphism of order 23 and we present their construction. All these codes are new.
Let nq(k, d) denote the smallest value of n for which an [n, k, d]q code exists for given integers k and d with k ≥ 3, 1 ≤ d ≤ q^(k−1) and a prime or a prime power q. The purpose of this note is to show that there exists a series of the functions h3,q, h4,q, ..., hk,q such that nq(k, d) can be expressed.This research was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under Contract Number 20540129.