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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
• CommentTimeApr 15th 2013
• (edited Apr 16th 2013)

Created binary Golay code. The construction is a little involved, and I haven’t put it in yet, because I think I can nut out a nicer description. The construction I aim to describe, in slightly different notation and terminology is in

R. T. Curtis (1976). A new combinatorial approach to M24. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79, pp 25-42. doi:10.1017/S0305004100052075.

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• CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
• CommentTimeApr 15th 2013

David, since you are looking at these topics (Golay code, Mathieu groups, Monster group): have you looked at the book by Frankel, Lepowsky and Meurman, Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster?

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• CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
• CommentTimeApr 15th 2013

No, I haven’t. It’s just bits from wikipedia and papers. Thanks for the reference.

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