Existence of Perfect 4-Deletion-Correcting Codes with Length Six

  • Authors:
  • Nabil Shalaby;Jianmin Wang;Jianxing Yin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF, Canada A1C 5S7;Department of Mathematics, Suzhou University, Suzhou 215006, China;Department of Mathematics, Suzhou University, Suzhou 215006, China jxyin@suda.edu.cn

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

By a T*(2, k, v)-code we mean a perfect4-deletion-correcting code of length 6 over an alphabet of size v, which is capable of correcting anycombination of up to 4 deletions and/or insertions of letters that occur in transmission of codewords. Thethird author (DCC Vol. 23, No. 1) presented a combinatorial construction for such codes and prove thata T*(2, 6, v)-code exists for all positive integers v≢ 3 (mod 5), with 12 possible exceptions of v. In this paper, the notion of a directedgroup divisible quasidesign is introduced and used to show that a T*(2, 6,v)-code exists for all positive integers v ≡ 3 (mod 5), except possiblyfor v ∈ {173, 178, 203, 208}. The 12 missing cases for T*(2,6, v)-codes with v ≢ 3 (mod 5) are also provided, thereby the existenceproblem for T*(2, 6, v)-codes is almost complete.