Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory

• The Type of a Self-Dual Code.- Weight Enumerators and Important Types.- Closed Codes.- The Category Quad.- The Main Theorems.- Real and Complex Clifford Groups.- Classical Self-Dual Codes.- Further Examples of Self-Dual Codes.- Lattices.- Maximal Isotropic Codes and Lattices.- Extremal and Optimal Codes.- Enumeration of Self-Dual Codes.- Quantum Codes.

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