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Main Authors: Shi, Minjia, Tao, Sihui, Hong, Jihoon, Kim, Jon-Lark
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00404
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author Shi, Minjia
Tao, Sihui
Hong, Jihoon
Kim, Jon-Lark
author_facet Shi, Minjia
Tao, Sihui
Hong, Jihoon
Kim, Jon-Lark
contents Self-dual codes have been studied actively because they are connected with mathematical structures including block designs and lattices and have practical applications in quantum error-correcting codes and secret sharing schemes. Nevertheless, there has been less attention to construct self-dual codes from self-orthogonal codes with smaller dimensions. Hence, the main purpose of this paper is to propose a way to expand any self-orthogonal code over a ring $\Z_4$ to many self-dual codes over $\Z_4$. We show that all self-dual codes over $\Z_4$ of lengths $4$ to $8$ can be constructed this way. Furthermore, we have found five new self-dual codes over $\Z_4$ of lengths $27, 28, 29, 33,$ and $34$ with the highest Euclidean weight $12$. Moreover, using Construction $A$ applied to our new Euclidean-optimal self-dual codes over $\Z_4$, we have constructed a new odd extremal unimodular lattice in dimension 34 whose kissing number was not previously known.
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spellingShingle Expanding self-orthogonal codes over a ring $\Z_4$ to self-dual codes and unimodular lattices
Shi, Minjia
Tao, Sihui
Hong, Jihoon
Kim, Jon-Lark
Cryptography and Security
Self-dual codes have been studied actively because they are connected with mathematical structures including block designs and lattices and have practical applications in quantum error-correcting codes and secret sharing schemes. Nevertheless, there has been less attention to construct self-dual codes from self-orthogonal codes with smaller dimensions. Hence, the main purpose of this paper is to propose a way to expand any self-orthogonal code over a ring $\Z_4$ to many self-dual codes over $\Z_4$. We show that all self-dual codes over $\Z_4$ of lengths $4$ to $8$ can be constructed this way. Furthermore, we have found five new self-dual codes over $\Z_4$ of lengths $27, 28, 29, 33,$ and $34$ with the highest Euclidean weight $12$. Moreover, using Construction $A$ applied to our new Euclidean-optimal self-dual codes over $\Z_4$, we have constructed a new odd extremal unimodular lattice in dimension 34 whose kissing number was not previously known.
title Expanding self-orthogonal codes over a ring $\Z_4$ to self-dual codes and unimodular lattices
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00404