2002-09: Pairs of Codes with Prescribed Hamming Distances and Coincidences

DIMACS TR: 2002-09

Pairs of Codes with Prescribed Hamming Distances and Coincidences

Authors: Vince Grolmusz

ABSTRACT
In this work we describe a fast algorithm for generating pairs of q-ary codes with prescribed pairwise Hamming-distances and coincidences (for a letter $s\in\{0,1,\ldots,q-1\}$, the number of $s$-coincidences between codewords $a$ and $b$ is the number of letters $s$ in the same positions both in $a$ and $b$). The method is a generalization of a method for constructing set-systems with prescribed intersection sizes (V. Grolmusz: Constructing Set-Systems with Prescribed Intersection Sizes, DIMACS Technical Report No. 2001-03), where only the case $q=2$ and $s=1$ was examined. We also generate codes with prescribed $k$-wise coincidences and Hamming-distances.

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