On self-orthogonal designs and codes related to Held's simple group

Abstract

A construction of designs acted on by simple primitive groups is used to find some 1-designs and associated self-orthogonal, decomposable and irreducible codes that admit the simple group He of Held as an automorphism group. The properties of the codes are given and links with modular representation theory are established. Further, we introduce a method of constructing self-orthogonal binary codes from orbit matrices of weakly self-orthogonal designs. Furthermore, from the support designs of the obtained self-orthogonal codes we construct strongly regular graphs with param