We derive a new upper bound on the minimum distance d of doubly-even self-dual codes of length n. Asymptotically, for n growing, it gives limn→∞ sup d/n⩽(5-53/4)/10<0.165630, thus improving on the Mallows-Odlyzko-Sloane bound of 1/6 and our recent bound of 0.166315
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Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:46
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Date of Publication: Jan 2000