On an analogue of the doubling method in coding theory

Abstract: The theories of automorphic forms and self-dual linear codes share many remarkable analogies. In both worlds there are functions invariant under an action of a group, notions of cusp forms and Hecke operators, also projections and lifts between different geni. It is then natural to ask if other important automorphic objects or techniques could be introduced into coding theory. In this article we propose a way to introduce the doubling method, an efficient technique used to construct and study $L$-functions. As a result, we prove the so-called doubling identity, which usually forms a base of many applications. Here we use it to solve an analogue of the "basis problem". Namely, we express a cusp form as an explicit linear combination of complete weight enumerators of the same type.