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Spectrum of Sizes for Perfect Deletion-Correcting Codes

Information Theory 2010-08-10 v1 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics math.IT

Abstract

One peculiarity with deletion-correcting codes is that perfect tt-deletion-correcting codes of the same length over the same alphabet can have different numbers of codewords, because the balls of radius tt with respect to the Levenshte\u{\i}n distance may be of different sizes. There is interest, therefore, in determining all possible sizes of a perfect tt-deletion-correcting code, given the length nn and the alphabet size~qq. In this paper, we determine completely the spectrum of possible sizes for perfect qq-ary 1-deletion-correcting codes of length three for all qq, and perfect qq-ary 2-deletion-correcting codes of length four for almost all qq, leaving only a small finite number of cases in doubt.

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@article{arxiv.1008.1343,
  title  = {Spectrum of Sizes for Perfect Deletion-Correcting Codes},
  author = {Yeow Meng Chee and Gennian Ge and Alan C. H. Ling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1343},
  year   = {2010}
}

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23 pages

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