Neighbors, neighbor graphs and invariant rings in coding theory

Abstract

In the present paper, we discuss the class of Type III and Type IV codes from the perspectives of neighbors. Our investigation analogously extends the results originally presented by Dougherty [8] concerning the neighbor graph of binary self-dual codes. Moreover, as an application of neighbors in invariant theory, we show that the ring of the weight enumerators of Type II code $d_{n}^{+}$ and its neighbors in arbitrary genus is finitely generated. Finally, we obtain a minimal set of generators of this ring up to the space of degree 24 and genus 3.