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On the size of maximal binary codes with 2, 3, and 4 distances

Combinatorics 2025-07-14 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We address the maximum size of binary codes and binary constant weight codes with few distances. Previous works established a number of bounds for these quantities as well as the exact values for a range of small code lengths. As our main results, we determine the exact size of maximal binary codes with two distances for all lengths n6n\ge 6 as well as the exact size of maximal binary constant weight codes with 2,3, and 4 distances for several values of the weight and for all but small lengths.

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@article{arxiv.2210.07496,
  title  = {On the size of maximal binary codes with 2, 3, and 4 distances},
  author = {Alexander Barg and Alexey Glazyrin and Wei-Jiun Kao and Ching-Yi Lai and Pin-Chieh Tseng and Wei-Hsuan Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07496},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Main text 23 pp. and Appendix 17pp