A counterexample to the triangle conjecture (Q762613)
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A counterexample to the triangle conjecture (English)
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1985
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It is known that the triangle conjecture sets a bound on the cardinality of a code formed by words of the form \(a^iba^j\). A counterexample exceeding this bound is presented in this paper. This also disproves a stronger conjecture that every code is commutatively equivalent to a prefix code.
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triangle conjecture
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cardinality of a code
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prefix code
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