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- From: sl25@cus.cam.ac.uk (Steve Linton)
- Subject: Re: combinatorics or coding theory question
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- Approved: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:56:27 GMT
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- |> Suppose you have N groups of cells. Each group contains K cells.
- |> Now suppose you make choices consisting of one cell chosen from
- |> each of the N groups. Let each such choice be called a vector.
- |> Clearly there are K^N unique vectors.
- |>
- |> My question is: what is the largest set of vectors you can pick
- |> such that no two of the vectors overlap (i.e. have the same cell)
- |> at more than Q of the groups (where Q < N)?
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- In more usual language, you want your vectors to differ in at least N-Q places. I
- shall call this number D.
-
- You are looking for the largest code with minimum distance D among your K^N
- vectors.
-
- Each vector has (N+D) neighbours at diostance less than D, so a
- ( D )
- (K-1)^
-
- simple upper bound on the size of your code is
-
- -(N+D/2)
- K^N (K-1)^ ( D/2 )
-
- (that's K to the N times (K-1) to the N+D/2 choose D/2).
-
- Anyway, you want to look at Codes, Groups and Sphere Packings by J.H.Conway and
- N.J.A. Sloane.
-
- Steve Linton
-
-