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Protein structures can be encoded into binary sequences, these are used to define a Hamming distance in conformational space: the distance between two different molecular conformations is the number of different bits in their sequences.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2008-12-14 Cyril Laboulais , Mohammed Ouali , Marc Le Bret , Jacques Gabarro-Arpa

An equidistant code is a code in the Hamming space such that two distinct codewords have the same Hamming distance. This paper investigates the bounds for equidistant codes in Hamming spaces.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Sihuang Hu , Hexiang Huang , Wei-Hsuan Yu

Given a set of sequences, the distance between pairs of them helps us to find their similarity and derive structural relationship amongst them. For genomic sequences such measures make it possible to construct the evolution tree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-29 Sandeep Hosangadi

Let $|A|$ denote the cardinality of a finite set $A$. For any real number $x$ define $t(x)=x$ if $x\geq1$ and 1 otherwise. For any finite sets $A,B$ let $\delta(A,B)$ $=$ $\log_{2}(t(|B\cap\bar{A}||A|))$. We define {This appears as…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Joel Ratsaby

A permutation array(or code) of length $n$ and distance $d$, denoted by $(n,d)$ PA, is a set of permutations $C$ from some fixed set of $n$ elements such that the Hamming distance between distinct members $\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}\in C$ is at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-28 Lizhen Yang , Ling Dong , Kefei Chen

Many consensus string problems are based on Hamming distance. We replace Hamming distance by the more flexible (e.g., easily coping with different input string lengths) dynamic time warping distance, best known from applications in time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Nathan Schaar , Vincent Froese , Rolf Niedermeier

Addressing questions raised in recent papers, we study the $r$-distance graph $H_r(n)$ on the Boolean cube $\{0,1\}^n$, where two vertices are adjacent if their Hamming distance is exactly $r$. For fixed integers $s \ge 2$ and even $r \ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-08 József Balogh , Ce Chen , Bowen Li

A word is said to be \emph{bordered} if it contains a non-empty proper prefix that is also a suffix. We can naturally extend this definition to pairs of non-empty words. A pair of words $(u,v)$ is said to be \emph{mutually bordered} if…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Daniel Gabric

Several measures exist for string similarity, including notable ones like the edit distance and the indel distance. The former measures the count of insertions, deletions, and substitutions required to transform one string into another,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sudatta Bhattacharya , Sanjana Dey , Elazar Goldenberg , Michal Koucký

In this paper we consider measures of similarity between two sets of strings built up using the Hamming distance and tools of persistence homology as a basis. First we describe the construction of the \v Cech filtration adjoined to the set…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Bojan Nikolić , Boris Šobot

The paper gives estimations for the sizes of the the following sets: (1) the set of strings that have a given dependency with a fixed string, (2) the set of strings that are pairwise \alpha independent, (3) the set of strings that are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Marius Zimand

An alternating distance is a link invariant that measures how far away a link is from alternating. We study several alternating distances and demonstrate that there exist families of links for which the difference between certain…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Adam M. Lowrance

We characterize the orderings of pairs of sets induced by several distances: Hamming, Jaccard, S\o rensen-Dice and Overlap. We also characterize these distances.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Thierry Marchant , Sandip Sarkar

This short note introduces the harmonic indel distance (HID), a new distance between strings where the cost of an insertion or deletion is inversely proportional to the string length. We present a closed-form formula and show that the HID…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Bob Pepin

We define the ``shift-match number'' for a binary string and we compute the probability of occurrence of a given string as a subsequence in longer strings in terms of its shift-match number. We thus prove that the string matching…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 A. H. Bilge , A. Erzan , D. Balcan

The edit distance between two graphs on the same labeled vertex set is defined to be the size of the symmetric difference of the edge sets. The edit distance function of a hereditary property $\mathcal{H}$ is a function of $p\in [0,1]$ that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Zhanar Berikkyzy , Ryan R. Martin , Chelsea Peck

Alice and Bob want to know if two strings of length n are almost equal. That is, do they differ on \textit{at most} a bits? Let 0\leq a\leq n-1. We show that any deterministic protocol, as well as any error-free quantum protocol (C*…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Andris Ambainis , William Gasarch , Aravind Srinavasan , Andrey Utis

Every known communication problem whose randomized communication cost is constant (independent of the input size) can be reduced to $k$-Hamming Distance, that is, solved with a constant number of deterministic queries to some $k$-Hamming…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yuting Fang , Mika Göös , Nathaniel Harms , Pooya Hatami

Suppose that we have two similar files stored on different computers. We need to send the file from the first computer to the second one trying to minimize the number of bits transmitted. This article presents a survey of results known for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-24 Aleksandr Chuklin

What is the distance between 11 (a prime number) and 12 (a highly composite number)? If your answer is 1, then ask yourself "is this reasonable?" In this work, we will introduce a distance between natural numbers based on their arithmetic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-06-04 Diego Dominici