Spectrum of Sizes for Perfect Deletion-Correcting Codes

  • Authors:
  • Yeow Meng Chee;Gennian Ge;Alan C. H. Ling

  • Affiliations:
  • ymchee@ntu.edu.sg;gnge@zju.edu.cn;aling@emba.uvm.edu

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

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