Constructions of optimal quaternary constant weight codes via group divisible designs (Q1045091)

Generalized Steiner systems \(GS(2, k, v, g)\) were first introduced by Etzion who used them to construct optimal constant weight codes over an alphabet of size \(g + 1\) and minimum Hamming distance \(2k - 3\), in which each codeword has length \(v\) and weight \(k\). The paper constructs large classes of group divisible designs. The authors then use these group divisible designs for constructing codes and extend the known results on the existence of optimal quaternary constant weight codes.