Source authenticatedFive existence statements, all by explicit construction: AME(12,5), AME(17,11), AME(18,11), AME(17,13) and AME(18,13). The [12,6,7]25 code came from a direct search with no symmetry imposed; its automorphism group turned out to have a regular Z32 coordinate orbit, and imposing that translation symmetry on two nine-coordinate orbits collapses an unrestricted 9×9 block to a nine-element kernel, which is what made the length-eighteen searches feasible.
The symmetry is search scaffolding, not part of the proof: the three printed matrices and the two checks suffice on their own. The paper is explicit that the searches were not exhaustive, so it proves existence and classifies nothing - equivalence and classification for these parameters stay open. The length-twelve code is also shown not to be monomially equivalent to a generalized Reed-Solomon code.
Five existence statements, all by explicit construction: AME(12,5), AME(17,11), AME(18,11), AME(17,13) and AME(18,13). The [12,6,7]25 code came from a direct search with no symmetry imposed; its automorphism group turned out to have a regular Z32 coordinate orbit, and imposing that translation symmetry on two nine-coordinate orbits collapses an unrestricted 9×9 block to a nine-element kernel, which is what made the length-eighteen searches feasible.
The symmetry is search scaffolding, not part of the proof: the three printed matrices and the two checks suffice on their own. The paper is explicit that the searches were not exhaustive, so it proves existence and classifies nothing - equivalence and classification for these parameters stay open. The length-twelve code is also shown not to be monomially equivalent to a generalized Reed-Solomon code.