Download or read book Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory written by Gabriele Nebe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most remarkable and beautiful theorems in coding theory is Gleason's 1970 theorem about the weight enumerators of self-dual codes and their connections with invariant theory, which has inspired hundreds of papers about generalizations and applications of this theorem to different types of codes. This self-contained book develops a new theory which is powerful enough to include all the earlier generalizations.