[#R242] Only five automorphism groups remain possible
claim. A witness has automorphism group C1, C2, C3, C2 by C2, or C5.
1Summary
The published exclusions reduce the full permutation automorphism group to \[ C_1,\quad C_2,\quad C_3,\quad C_2\times C_2,\quad\text{or}\quad C_5. \] Borello's 2014 theorem first reduces the list to cyclic groups of orders 1 through 5 and the elementary abelian group of order 4. Yorgov and Yorgov then exclude an element of order 4 by an exhaustive parameterized search, removing \(C_4\).
The restrictions also determine the possible cycle structures. Every involution is fixed-point-free, so it acts as 36 transpositions. Every element of order 3 is fixed-point-free, so it acts as 24 three-cycles. An element of order 5 acts as fourteen 5-cycles and fixes two coordinates.
Supported evidence. Recorded scope: the full permutation automorphism group of every binary self-dual [72,36,16] code, if one exists.
2Evidence
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Verification source: doi.org ↗, Martino Borello, Finite Fields and Their Applications 25 (2014), 1-7, Theorem 1.1 and final exclusion; combined with Vassil Yorgov and Daniel Yorgov, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 60(6) (2014), 3302-3307, DOI 10.1109/TIT.2014.2313697
3Overview
Earlier primary computations exclude \(C_7\), \(C_3\times C_3\), \(D_{10}\), elements of order 6, \(S_3\), \(A_4\), \(D_8\), and an elementary abelian group of order 8. These results make symmetry-based searches finite in several branches. The trivial-group branch receives no comparable reduction.
4What was measured
- Possible full automorphism groups
- C1, C2, C3, C2xC2, C5
- Possible group orders
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Cycle types
5How it connects
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- claim
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"relevance": "For An extremal Type II binary code of length 72, record etc72-claim-automorphism-restrictions (“Only five automorphism groups remain possible”) records a bound, answer, status fact, or structural consequence. The record states: A witness has automorphism group C1, C2, C3, C2 by C2, or C5.",
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}7Provenance
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- Project
- extremal-type-ii-code-72
- Locator
- Martino Borello, Finite Fields and Their Applications 25 (2014), 1-7, Theorem 1.1 and final exclusion; combined with Vassil Yorgov and Daniel Yorgov, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 60(6) (2014), 3302-3307, DOI 10.1109/TIT.2014.2313697
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Contributors
- TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
- Source
- doi.org ↗
- Public record
- R242
- Stable alias
- etc72-claim-automorphism-restrictions
- Projection
- Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.
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