On perfect ternary constant weight codes (Q1591632)
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On perfect ternary constant weight codes (English)
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1 January 2001
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A sequence of perfect ternary constant-weight codes of length \(2^r\), weight \(2^r-1\) and minimum distance 3 is presented. The construction is based on binary Hamming codes. It is shown that these parameters are the only ones for which a perfect single error correcting ternary code can exist.
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constant-weight codes
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ternary codes
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perfect codes
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