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The degree sequence $(n_{i,j}(k), 1\leq i,j\leq d, k\geq 0)$ of a multitype forest with $d$ types encodes the number of individuals of type $i$ with $k$ children of type $j$. In this paper, we introduce a simple algorithm to sample a…
It is well known that, given \(b\ge 0\), finding an $(a,b)$-trapping set with the minimum \(a\) in a binary linear code is NP-hard. In this paper, we demonstrate that this problem can be solved with linear complexity with respect to the…
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