A lower bound for the minimum weight of the dual 7-ary code of a projective plane of order 49

  • Authors:
  • Jennifer D. Key;Fidele F. Ngwane

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, USA 29634;Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, USA 29634

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Existing bounds on the minimum weight d 驴 of the dual 7-ary code of a projective plane of order 49 show that this must be in the range 76 驴 d 驴 驴 98. We use combinatorial arguments to improve this range to 88 驴 d 驴 驴 98, noting that the upper bound can be taken to be 91 if the plane has a Baer subplane, as in the desarguesian case. A brief survey of known results for the minimum weight of the dual codes of finite projective planes is also included.