Fabio Burderi ; Antonio Restivo - Coding partitions

dmtcs:380 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2007, Vol. 9 no. 2 - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.380
Coding partitionsArticle

Authors: Fabio Burderi 1; Antonio Restivo 1

  • 1 Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni [Palermo]

Motivated by the study of decipherability conditions for codes weaker than Unique Decipherability (UD), we introduce the notion of coding partition. Such a notion generalizes that of UD code and, for codes that are not UD, allows to recover the ''unique decipherability" at the level of the classes of the partition. By tacking into account the natural order between the partitions, we define the characteristic partition of a code X as the finest coding partition of X. This leads to introduce the canonical decomposition of a code in at most one unambiguous component and other (if any) totally ambiguous components. In the case the code is finite, we give an algorithm for computing its canonical partition. This, in particular, allows to decide whether a given partition of a finite code X is a coding partition. This last problem is then approached in the case the code is a rational set. We prove its decidability under the hypothesis that the partition contains a finite number of classes and each class is a rational set. Moreover we conjecture that the canonical partition satisfies such a hypothesis. Finally we consider also some relationships between coding partitions and varieties of codes.


Volume: Vol. 9 no. 2
Published on: January 1, 2007
Imported on: March 26, 2015
Keywords: [INFO.INFO-DM] Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]

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