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On non-full-rank perfect codes over finite fields

Information Theory 2017-04-11 v1 math.IT

Abstract

The paper deals with the perfect 1-error correcting codes over a finite field with qq elements (briefly qq-ary 1-perfect codes). We show that the orthogonal code to the qq-ary non-full-rank 1-perfect code of length n=(qm1)/(q1)n = (q^{m}-1)/(q-1) is a qq-ary constant-weight code with Hamming weight equals to qm1q^{m - 1} where mm is any natural number not less than two. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for qq-ary 1-perfect codes of non-full rank. We suggest a generalization of the concatenation construction to the qq-ary case and construct the ternary 1-perfect codes of length 13 and rank 12.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02627,
  title  = {On non-full-rank perfect codes over finite fields},
  author = {Alexander M. Romanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02627},
  year   = {2017}
}
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