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Group-alphabet code

Root code for the Group Kingdom

Description

Encodes \(K\) states (codewords) using symbols drawn from a group \(G\), typically with the group operation inducing a natural notion of translation or symmetry on the alphabet. The number of codewords may be infinite for infinite groups, so various restricted versions have to be constructed in practice.

Cousins

  • Group-based quantum code— Group-based quantum codes are quantum counterparts of group-alphabet codes.
  • Symmetric-space code— Group spaces for Lie groups \(G\) are symmetric spaces [1; Table 6.1].
  • 24-cell code— The 24-cell code has a quaternion-coordinate realization as the 24 elements of the binary tetrahedral group \(2T\), one of the three exceptional finite subgroups of \(SU(2)\) [2].
  • 600-cell code— The 600-cell code has a quaternion-coordinate realization as the 120 elements of the binary icosahedral group \(2I \cong 2.A_5\), one of the three exceptional finite subgroups of \(SU(2)\) [2][3; Ch. 8, pg. 207].
  • Disphenoidal 288-cell code— The disphenoidal 288-cell code has a quaternion-coordinate realization as the 48 elements of the binary octahedral group \(2O\), one of the three exceptional finite subgroups of \(SU(2)\) [2; Sec. 8.6].

Member of code lists

Primary Hierarchy

Parents
Homogeneous spaces \(G/H\) for trivial \(H\) reduce to group spaces. A group-\(G\) space can also be thought of as a multiplicity-free homogeneous space \((G\times G) / G\) [4; pg. 60].
Group-alphabet code
Children
Analog code alphabets, such as \(\mathbb{R}^n\) or \(\mathbb{C}^n\), are additive groups.
Dihedral codes are group-alphabet codes for the dihedral group \(G=D_n\).
Codes in permutations are group-alphabet codes for the symmetric group \(G=S_n\).

References

[1]
M. Berger, A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003) DOI
[2]
L. Rastanawi and G. Rote, “Towards a Geometric Understanding of the 4-Dimensional Point Groups”, (2022) arXiv:2205.04965
[3]
J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (Springer New York, 1999) DOI
[4]
P. Diaconis, Group Representations in Probability and Statistics, Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, vol. 11 (Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1988)
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“Group-alphabet code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2022. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/group_classical
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@incollection{eczoo_group_classical, title={Group-alphabet code}, booktitle={The Error Correction Zoo}, year={2022}, editor={Albert, Victor V. and Faist, Philippe}, url={https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/group_classical} }
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