Existing bounds on the minimum weight d of the dual 7-ary code of a projective plane of order 49 show that this must be in the range of 75 < d < 99. We use combinatorial arguments to improve this range to 87 < d < 99, noting that the upper bound can be taken to be 91 if the plane has a Baer subplane, as in the desarguesian case. A brief survey of known results for the minimum weight of the dual...

In ring theory, the notion of annihilator is an important tool for studying the structures. Many characterizations and structure theorems can be derived by using this notion. On the other hand, certain classes of rings (e.g., Baer rings and Rickart rings) are defined by considering annihilators ideals. In the present work, we introduce a class of rings which is close to the class of Rickart rin...