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Two-Insertion/Deletion/Substitution Correcting Codes

Information Theory 2024-01-23 v1 math.IT

Abstract

In recent years, the emergence of DNA storage systems has led to a widespread focus on the research of codes correcting insertions, deletions, and classic substitutions. During the initial investigation, Levenshtein discovered the VT codes are precisely capable of correcting single insertion/deletion and then extended the VT construction to single-insertion/deletion/substitution (11-ins/del/sub) correcting codes. Inspired by this, we generalize the recent findings of 11-del 11-sub correcting codes with redundancy 6log2n+O(1)6\log_{2}n+O(1) to more general 22-ins/del/sub correcting codes without increasing the redundancy. Our key technique is to apply higher-order VT syndromes to distinct objects and accomplish a systematic classification of all error patterns.

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@article{arxiv.2401.11231,
  title  = {Two-Insertion/Deletion/Substitution Correcting Codes},
  author = {Yuhang Pi and Zhifang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11231},
  year   = {2024}
}
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