# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2013, 7(4): 503-510. doi: 10.3934/amc.2013.7.503

## The automorphism group of a self-dual $[72,36,16]$ code does not contain $\mathcal S_3$, $\mathcal A_4$ or $D_8$

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, 20125 Milan, Italy, Italy 2 Lehrstuhl D für Mathematik, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany

Received  March 2013 Revised  July 2013 Published  October 2013

A computer calculation with $M$AGMA shows that there is no extremal self-dual binary code $\mathcal{C}$ of length $72$ whose automorphism group contains the symmetric group of degree $3$, the alternating group of degree $4$ or the dihedral group of order $8$. Combining this with the known results in the literature one obtains that $Aut(\mathcal{C})$ has order at most $5$ or is isomorphic to the elementary abelian group of order $8$.
Citation: Martino Borello, Francesca Dalla Volta, Gabriele Nebe. The automorphism group of a self-dual $[72,36,16]$ code does not contain $\mathcal S_3$, $\mathcal A_4$ or $D_8$. Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2013, 7 (4) : 503-510. doi: 10.3934/amc.2013.7.503
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