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Optimal codes with small constant weight in $\ell_1$-metric

Information Theory 2020-10-12 v2 math.IT

Abstract

Motivated by the duplication-correcting problem for data storage in live DNA, we study the construction of constant-weight codes in 1\ell_1-metric. By using packings and group divisible designs in combinatorial design theory, we give constructions of optimal codes over non-negative integers and optimal ternary codes with 1\ell_1-weight w4w\leq 4 for all possible distances. In general, we derive the size of the largest ternary code with constant weight ww and distance 2w22w-2 for sufficiently large length nn satisfying n1,w,w+2,2w+3(modw(w1))n\equiv 1,w,-w+2,-2w+3\pmod{w(w-1)}.

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@article{arxiv.2003.00483,
  title  = {Optimal codes with small constant weight in $\ell_1$-metric},
  author = {Tingting Chen and Yiming Ma and Xiande Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.00483},
  year   = {2020}
}
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