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Gray codes and Enumerative Coding for vector spaces

Information Theory 2013-06-12 v2 Combinatorics math.IT

Abstract

Gray codes for vector spaces are considered in two graphs: the Grassmann graph, and the projective-space graph, both of which have recently found applications in network coding. For the Grassmann graph, constructions of cyclic optimal codes are given for all parameters. As for the projective-space graph, two constructions for specific parameters are provided, as well some non-existence results. Furthermore, encoding and decoding algorithms are given for the Grassmannian Gray code, which induce an enumerative-coding scheme. The computational complexity of the algorithms is at least as low as known schemes, and for certain parameter ranges, the new scheme outperforms previously-known ones.

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@article{arxiv.1305.5765,
  title  = {Gray codes and Enumerative Coding for vector spaces},
  author = {Moshe Schwartz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.5765},
  year   = {2013}
}
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