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Semidefinite bounds for mixed binary/ternary codes

Combinatorics 2018-04-03 v2 Optimization and Control Representation Theory

Abstract

For nonnegative integers n2,n3n_2, n_3 and dd, let N(n2,n3,d)N(n_2,n_3,d) denote the maximum cardinality of a code of length n2+n3n_2+n_3, with n2n_2 binary coordinates and n3n_3 ternary coordinates (in this order) and with minimum distance at least dd. For a nonnegative integer kk, let Ck\mathcal{C}_k denote the collection of codes of cardinality at most kk. For DCkD \in \mathcal{C}_k, define S(D):={CCkDC,D+2CDk}S(D) := \{C \in \mathcal{C}_k \mid D \subseteq C, |D| +2|C\setminus D| \leq k\}. Then N(n2,n3,d)N(n_2,n_3,d) is upper bounded by the maximum value of v[2]n2[3]n3x({v})\sum_{v \in [2]^{n_2}[3]^{n_3}}x(\{v\}), where xx is a function CkR\mathcal{C}_k \rightarrow \mathbb{R} such that x()=1x(\emptyset) = 1 and x(C)=0x(C) = 0 if CC has minimum distance less than dd, and such that the S(D)×S(D)S(D)\times S(D) matrix (x(CC))C,CS(D)(x(C\cup C'))_{C,C' \in S(D)} is positive semidefinite for each DCkD \in \mathcal{C}_k. By exploiting symmetry, the semidefinite programming problem for the case k=3k=3 is reduced using representation theory. It yields 135135 new upper bounds that are provided in tables

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1606.06930,
  title  = {Semidefinite bounds for mixed binary/ternary codes},
  author = {Bart Litjens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.06930},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages; some typos have been fixed. Accepted for publication in Discrete Mathematics