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An enumeration of 1-perfect ternary codes

Combinatorics 2023-04-11 v3 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We study codes with parameters of the ternary Hamming (n=(3m1)/2,3nm,3)(n=(3^m-1)/2,3^{n-m},3) code, i.e., ternary 11-perfect codes. The rank of the code is defined to be the dimension of its affine span. We characterize ternary 11-perfect codes of rank nm+1n-m+1, count their number, and prove that all such codes can be obtained from each other by a sequence of two-coordinate switchings. We enumerate ternary 11-perfect codes of length 1313 obtained by concatenation from codes of lengths 99 and 44; we find that there are 9324132793241327 equivalence classes of such codes. Keywords: perfect codes, ternary codes, concatenation, switching.

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@article{arxiv.2110.06305,
  title  = {An enumeration of 1-perfect ternary codes},
  author = {Minjia Shi and Denis S. Krotov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.06305},
  year   = {2023}
}