Repeat-free codes
Organization
Coding and Information Transmission Group
Abstract
In this thesis topic we are going to investigate repeat-free codes. A word c of length n over a finite alphabet A is called (n,k) repeat-free if every word of length k occurs at most once as a subword of c. Here a word w=w_1w_2...w_k occurs in c at location i if c_{i+j-1}=w_j for j=1, ..., k. A collection C of words of length n over A is called an (n,k) repeat-free code over A if every word c in C is (n,k)-repeat-free. More general, a code C is called (n,k) (t+1)-repeat-free if in each code word, every word of length k occurs at most t times.
Some important questions are the following.
1. What is the number N_{n,k} of (n,k) repeat-free words of length n? And what is
the number N_{n,k,t} of (n; k) (t + 1)-repeat-free words?
2. How should we encode into repeat-free words?
Already the notion of a (t + 1)-repeat-free code seems new here.
The aim is to read some papers on this subject and then to investigate the above questions.
Some important questions are the following.
1. What is the number N_{n,k} of (n,k) repeat-free words of length n? And what is
the number N_{n,k,t} of (n; k) (t + 1)-repeat-free words?
2. How should we encode into repeat-free words?
Already the notion of a (t + 1)-repeat-free code seems new here.
The aim is to read some papers on this subject and then to investigate the above questions.
Graduation Theses defence year
2022-2023
Supervisor
Henk D.L. Hollmann, Vitaly Skachek, Ago-Erik Riet
Spoken language (s)
English
Requirements for candidates
The topic is suitable both for a bachelor thesis and for a master thesis.
Some background in combinatorics would be helpful but is not required.
Some background in combinatorics would be helpful but is not required.
Level
Bachelor, Masters
Keywords
Application of contact
Name
Henk D.L. Hollmann
Phone
+31 619489142
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