On the isometries between Z(pk) and Z pk

  • Authors:
  • A. Salagean-Mandache

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ.

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We prove that, except for the well-known case p=k=2, it is not possible to construct a weight function on Z(pk) for which Z(pk) is isometric to Zp k with the Hamming metric