On the maximum number of non-confusable strings evolving under short tandem duplications

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Abstract: The set of all q-ary strings that do not contain repeated substrings of length leqslant!3 (i.e., that do not contain substrings of the form aa, abab, and abcabc) constitutes a code correcting an arbitrary number of tandem-duplication mutations of length leqslant!3. In other words, any two such strings are non-confusable in the sense that they cannot produce the same string while evolving under tandem duplications of length leqslant!3. We demonstrate that this code is asymptotically optimal in terms of rate, meaning that it represents the largest set of non-confusable strings up to subexponential factors. This result settles the zero-error capacity problem for the last remaining case of tandem-duplication channels satisfying the "root-uniqueness" property.












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