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Properties of Codes in the Johnson Scheme

Natalia Silberstein
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Codes which attain the sphere packing bound are called perfect codes. The most important metrics in coding theory on which perfect codes are defined are the Hamming metric and the Johnson metric. While for the Hamming metric all perfect codes over finite fields are known, in the Johnson metric it was conjectured by Delsarte in 1970's that there are no nontrivial perfect codes. The general nonexistence proof still remains the open problem. In this work we examine constant weight codes as well as doubly constant weight codes, and reduce the range of parameters in which perfect codes may exist in both cases. We start with the constant weight codes. We introduce an improvement of Roos' bound for one-perfect codes, and present some new divisibility conditions, which are based on the connection between perfect codes in Johnson graph J(n,w) and block designs. Next, we consider binomial moments for perfect codes. We show which parameters can be excluded for one-perfect codes. We examine two-perfect codes in J(2w,w) and present necessary conditions for existence of such codes. We prove that there are no two-perfect codes in J(2w,w) with length less then 2.5*10^{15}. Next we examine perfect doubly constant weight codes. We present a family of parameters for codes whose size of sphere divides the size of whole space. We then prove a bound on length of such codes, similarly to Roos' bound for perfect codes in Johnson graph. Finally we describe Steiner systems and doubly Steiner systems, which are strongly connected with the constant weight and doubly constant weight codes respectively. We provide an anticode-based proof of a bound on length of Steiner system, prove that doubly Steiner system is a diameter perfect code and present a bound on length of doubly Steiner system.

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Natalia Silberstein. 2010-04-27. Properties of Codes in the Johnson Scheme. https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4882

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