New Bounds on Parent-Identifying Codes: The Case of Multiple Parents

  • Authors:
  • Noga Alon;Uri Stav

  • Affiliations:
  • Schools of Mathematics and Computer Science, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel (e-mail: noga@math.tau.ac.il);School of Computer Science, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel (e-mail: suri@tau.ac.il)

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Let $C$ be a code of length $n$ over an alphabet of $q$ letters. A codeword $y$ is called a descendant of a set of $t$ codewords $\{x^1,\dots,x^t\}$ if $y_i \in \{x^1_i,\dots,x^t_i\}$ for all $i=1,\dots,n$. A code is said to have the Identifiable Parent Property of order $t$ if, for any word of length $n$ that is a descendant of at most $t$ codewords (parents), it is possible to identify at least one of them. Let $f_t(n,q)$ be the maximum possible cardinality of such a code. We prove that for any $t,n,q$, $(c_1(t)q)^{\frac{n}{s(t)}}