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A universal cycle, or u-cycle, for a given set of words is a circular word that contains each word from the set exactly once as a contiguous subword. The celebrated de Bruijn sequences are a particular case of such a u-cycle, where a set in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Herman Z. Q. Chen , Sergey Kitaev , Brian Y. Sun

A universal cycle is a cyclic sequence in which each object of a combinatorial family appears exactly once as a contiguous window. While such cycles are well understood for many discrete structures and linear subspaces, the case of affine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Ming-Hsuan Kang , Shin-Hsun Chou

A de Bruijn cycle is a cyclic listing of length A, of a collection of A combinatorial objects, so that each object appears exactly once as a set of consecutive elements in the cycle. In this paper, we show the power of de Bruijn's original…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Andre Campbell , Anant Godbole , Bill Kay

For a set of integers $I$, we define a $q$-ary $I$-cycle to be a assignment of the symbols 1 through $q$ to the integers modulo $q^n$ so that every word appears on some translate of $I$. This definition generalizes that of de Bruijn cycles,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joshua N. Cooper , Ronald L. Graham

It is well known that Universal Cycles of $k$-letter words on an $n$-letter alphabet exist for all $k$ and $n$. In this paper, we prove that Universal Cycles exist for restricted classes of words, including: non-bijections, equitable words…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Arielle Leitner , Anant Godbole

A connected digraph in which the in-degree of any vertex equals its out-degree is Eulerian; this baseline result is used as the basis of existence proofs for universal cycles (also known as deBruijn cycles or $U$-cycles) of several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Britni LaBounty-Lay , Ashley Bechel , Anant P. Godbole

The de Bruijn torus (or grid) problem looks to find an $n$-by-$m$ binary matrix in which every possible $j$-by-$k$ submatrix appears exactly once. The existence and construction of these binary matrices was determined in the 70's, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Victoria Horan , Brett Stevens

A universal cycle (u-cycle) for permutations of length $n$ is a cyclic word, any size $n$ window of which is order-isomorphic to exactly one permutation of length $n$, and all permutations of length $n$ are covered. It is known that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Sergey Kitaev , Dun Qiu

A superimposed code is a collection of binary vectors (codewords) with the property that no vector is contained in the Boolean sum of any $k$ others, enabling unique identification of codewords within any group of $k$. Superimposed codes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Gianluca De Marco , Dariusz R. Kowalski

Kitaev, Potapov, and Vajnovszki [On shortening u-cycles and u-words for permutations, Discrete Appl. Math, 2019] described how to shorten universal words for permutations, to length $n!+n-1-i(n-1)$ for any $i \in [(n-2)!]$, by introducing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Rachel Kirsch , Bernard Lidický , Clare Sibley , Elizabeth Sprangel

A universal cycle for permutations of length $n$ is a cyclic word or permutation, any factor of which is order-isomorphic to exactly one permutation of length $n$, and containing all permutations of length $n$ as factors. It is well known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Alice L. L. Gao , Sergey Kitaev , Wolfgang Steiner , Philip B. Zhang

We define generalized de Bruijn words as those words having a Burrows-Wheeler transform that is a concatenation of permutations of the alphabet. We show that generalized de Bruijn words are in 1-to-1 correspondence with Hamiltonian cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Gabriele Fici , Estéban Gabory

Let S be a cyclic n-ary sequence. We say that S is a {\it universal cycle} ((n,k)-Ucycle) for k-subsets of [n] if every such subset appears exactly once contiguously in S, and is a Ucycle packing if every such subset appears at most once.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-23 Dawn Curtis , Taylor Hines , Glenn Hurlbert , Tatiana Moyer

Cycles and Cliques in a side-information graph reduce the number of transmissions required in an index coding problem. Thapa, Ong and Johnson defined a more general form of overlapping cycles, called the interlinked-cycle (IC) structure,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mahesh Babu Vaddi , B. Sundar Rajan

Chen, Kitaev, M\"{u}tze, and Sun recently introduced the notion of universal partial words, a generalization of universal words and de Bruijn sequences. Universal partial words allow for a wild-card character $\diamond$, which is a…

Cyclic codes are a subclass of linear codes and have wide applications in consumer electronics, data storage systems, and communication systems due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. Cyclic codes with many zeros and their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-25 Zhengchun Zhou , Aixian Zhang , Cunsheng Ding , Maosheng Xiong

A connected digraph in which the in-degree of any vertex equals its out-degree is Eulerian; this baseline result is used as the basis of existence proofs for universal cycles (also known as ucycles or generalized deBruijn cycles or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Amelia Cantwell , Juliann Geraci , Anant Godbole , Cristobal Padilla

Subspace codes have received an increasing interest recently due to their application in error-correction for random network coding. In particular, cyclic subspace codes are possible candidates for large codes with efficient encoding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Eli Ben-Sasson , Tuvi Etzion , Ariel Gabizon , Netanel Raviv

Generalized quasi-cyclic (GQC) codes form a natural generalization of quasi-cyclic (QC) codes. They are viewed here as mixed alphabet codes over a family of ring alphabets. Decomposing these rings into local rings by the Chinese Remainder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Cem Güneri , Ferruh Özbudak , Buket Özkaya , Elif Saçıkara , Zahra Sepasdar , Patrick Solé

Due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms cyclic codes, a subclass of linear codes, have applications in consumer electronics, data storage systems, and communication systems. In this paper, Dickson polynomials of the first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Cunsheng Ding