OFFSET
1,5
REFERENCES
J. H. Conway and V. S. Pless, On the enumeration of self-dual codes, J. Comb. Theory, A28 (1980), 26-53.
F. J. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane, The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes, Elsevier/North Holland, 1977.
V. S. Pless, The children of the (32,16) doubly even codes, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, 24 (1978), 738-746.
LINKS
J. H. Conway, V. Pless and N. J. A. Sloane, The Binary Self-Dual Codes of Length Up to 32: A Revised Enumeration, J. Comb. Theory, A28 (1980), 26-53 (Abstract, pdf, ps, Table A, Table D).
P. Gaborit, Tables of Self-Dual Codes
G. Nebe, E. M. Rains and N. J. A. Sloane, Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory, Springer, Berlin, 2006.
EXAMPLE
At length 8 the only strictly Type I self-dual code is {00,11}^4, so a(4) = 1.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, May 06 2005, Aug 23 2008
STATUS
approved