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Codes Correcting Two Bursts of Exactly $b$ Deletions

Information Theory 2025-09-09 v5 math.IT

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate codes designed to correct two bursts of deletions, where each burst has a length of exactly bb, where b>1b>1. The previous best construction, achieved through the syndrome compression technique, had a redundancy of at most 7logn+O(logn/loglogn)7\log n+O\left(\log n/\log\log n\right) bits. In contrast, our work introduces a novel approach for constructing qq-ary codes that attain a redundancy of at most 5logn+O(loglogn)5\log n+O(\log\log n) bits for all b>1b>1 and q2q\ge2. Additionally, for the case where b=1b=1, we present a new construction of qq-ary two-deletion correcting codes with a redundancy of 5logn+O(loglogn)5\log n+O(\log\log n) bits, for all q>2q>2.

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@article{arxiv.2408.03113,
  title  = {Codes Correcting Two Bursts of Exactly $b$ Deletions},
  author = {Zuo Ye and Yubo Sun and Wenjun Yu and Gennian Ge and Ohad Elishco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.03113},
  year   = {2025}
}

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