id: 05903549 dt: j an: 05903549 au: Meyer, Annika ti: On dual extremal maximal self-orthogonal codes of type I‒IV. so: Adv. Math. Commun. 4, No. 4, 579-596 (2010). py: 2010 pu: Shandong University, Jinan; American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Springfield, MO la: EN cc: ut: linear code; self-orthogonal code; weight distribution; extremality ci: li: doi:10.3934/amc.2010.4.579 ab: Summary: For a type $T \in\{$I, II, III, IV$\}$ of codes over finite fields and length $N$ where there exists no self-dual type-$T$ code of length $N$, upper bounds on the minimum weight of the dual code of a self-orthogonal type-$T$ code of length $N$ are given, allowing for the notion of dual extremal codes. It is proven that for $T \in\{$II, III, IV$\}$ the Hamming weight enumerator of a dual extremal maximal self-orthogonal type-$T$ code of a given length is unique. rv: