English

Completely regular codes in graphs covered by a Hamming graph

Combinatorics 2024-11-15 v1

Abstract

In Cayley graphs on the additive group of a small vector space over GF(q)(q), q=2,3q=2,3, we look for completely regular (CR) codes whose parameters are new in Hamming graphs over the same field. The existence of a CR code in such Cayley graph GG implies the existence of a CR code with the same parameters in the corresponding Hamming graph that covers GG. In such a way, we find several completely regular codes with new parameters in Hamming graphs over GF(3)(3). The most interesting findings are two new CR-11 (with covering radius~11) codes that are independent sets (such CR are equivalent to optimal orthogonal arrays attaining the Bierbrauer--Friedman bound) and one new CR-22. By recursive constructions, every knew CR code induces an infinite sequence of CR codes (in particular, optimal orthogonal arrays if the original code was CR-11 and independent). In between, we classify feasible parameters of CR codes in several strongly regular graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2411.09698,
  title  = {Completely regular codes in graphs covered by a Hamming graph},
  author = {Sergey Goryainov and Denis Krotov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.09698},
  year   = {2024}
}
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