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Gray Codes and Overlap Cycles for Restricted Weight Words

Combinatorics 2014-03-10 v1 Discrete Mathematics Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

A Gray code is a listing structure for a set of combinatorial objects such that some consistent (usually minimal) change property is maintained throughout adjacent elements in the list. While Gray codes for m-ary strings have been considered in the past, we provide a new, simple Gray code for fixed-weight m-ary strings. In addition, we consider a relatively new type of Gray code known as overlap cycles and prove basic existence results concerning overlap cycles for fixed-weight and weight-range m-ary words.

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@article{arxiv.1403.1818,
  title  = {Gray Codes and Overlap Cycles for Restricted Weight Words},
  author = {Victoria Horan and Glenn Hurlbert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1818},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures

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