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Configurations of Extremal Type II Codes

Number Theory 2015-03-17 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove configuration results for extremal Type II codes, analogous to the configuration results of Ozeki and of the second author for extremal Type II lattices. Specifically, we show that for n{8,24,32,48,56,72,96}n \in \{8, 24, 32, 48, 56, 72, 96\} every extremal Type II code of length nn is generated by its codewords of minimal weight. Where Ozeki and Kominers used spherical harmonics and weighted theta functions, we use discrete harmonic polynomials and harmonic weight enumerators. Along we way we introduce "t12t\frac12-designs" as a discrete analog of Venkov's spherical designs of the same name.

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@article{arxiv.1503.04297,
  title  = {Configurations of Extremal Type II Codes},
  author = {Noam D. Elkies and Scott Duke Kominers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.04297},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages

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