Nearly perfect code[1][2]

Description

An \((n,K,2t+1)\) binary code is nearly perfect if parameters \(n\), \(K\), and \(t\) are such that the Johnson bound \begin{align} \frac{{n \choose t}\left(\frac{n-t}{t+1}-\left\lfloor \frac{n-t}{t+1}\right\rfloor \right)}{\left\lfloor \frac{n}{t+1}\right\rfloor }+\sum_{j=0}^{t}{n \choose j}\leq2^{n}/K \tag*{(1)}\end{align} becomes an equality ([3], Sec. 2.3.5; see also Ref. [4], Ch. 17). All nearly perfect binary codes are either perfect, or correspond to either punctured Preparata codes or one of the \(2^r-2,2^{2^r-2-r},3)\) codes for \(r\geq 3\) [5].

Similar definitions can be made for \(q\)-ary codes, but all nearly perfect \(q\)-ary codes must be perfect [6][7].

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Cousins

  • Golay code — The extended Golay code is nearly perfect.
  • Hamming code — Shortened Hamming codes \([2^r-2,2^r-r-2,3]\) are nearly perfect ([4], pg. 533).

References

[1]
J. M. Goethals and S. L. Snover, “Nearly perfect binary codes”, Discrete Mathematics 3, 65 (1972) DOI
[2]
N. V. Semakov, V. A. Zinov'ev, G. V. Zaitsev, “Uniformly Packed Codes”, Probl. Peredachi Inf., 7:1 (1971), 38–50; Problems Inform. Transmission, 7:1 (1971), 30–39
[3]
W. C. Huffman and V. Pless, Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes (Cambridge University Press, 2003) DOI
[4]
F. J. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane. The theory of error correcting codes. Elsevier, 1977.
[5]
Kauko Lindström. "The nonexistence of unknown nearly perfect binary codes." PhD diss., Turun yliopisto, 1975.
[6]
K. Lindstrom and M. J. Aaltonen, "The nonexistence of nearly perfect nonbinary codes for 1 =< e =< 10", Ann. Univ. Turku, Ser. A I, No. 172, 1976.
[7]
K. Lindström, “All nearly perfect codes are known”, Information and Control 35, 40 (1977) DOI
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“Nearly perfect code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2022. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/nearly_perfect
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