Minimum average distance subsets in the Hamming cube (Q1598851)
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Minimum average distance subsets in the Hamming cube (English)
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28 May 2002
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In 1979 Ahlswede and Katona proposed the following discrete isoperimetric problem: find a vertex set of fixed size in the hypercube with minimum average distance. This survey-type paper reports a number of recent results. Furthermore it conjectures a general way to describe the possible candidates to be extremal, showing that the known cases belong to this class.
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discrete isoperimetric problem
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unit hypercube
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Hamming space
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