Description
An orthogonal array, or OA\(_{\lambda}(t,n,q)\), of strength \(t\) with \(q\) levels and \(n\) constraints is a set of \(q\)-ary strings such that any subset of \(t\) coordinates contains every length-\(t\) string an equal number of times \(\lambda\), which is the index of the array.
Notes
See [4] for a book on orthogonal arrays.
Parents
- Galois-field \(q\)-ary code
- Design — Orthogonal arrays are designs on Hamming space \(GF(q)^n\) (a.k.a. the Hamming association scheme) [5–7][8; Exam. 1]; see also Ref. [9].
Children
- Perfect binary code — Perfect distance-three binary codes of length \(n =2^m-1\) are equivalent to binary orthogonal arrays of strength \(t = 2^{m-1}-1\) [10–12].
- Maximum distance separable (MDS) code — An MDS code is an OA\(_{1}(k,n,q)\) [13; Thm. 3.3.19].
- \(q\)-ary sharp configuration
Cousins
- Golay code — The extended Golay code is an orthogonal array of strength 7 [8; Exam. 1]
- Binary code — An \((n,K)\) binary code with dual distance \(d^{\perp}\) is an OA\(_{K/2^{d^{\perp}-1}}(d^{\perp}-1,n,2)\) [14][15; Ch. 5].
- Reed-Muller (RM) code — RM codes are related to orthogonal arrays [16; Exam. 10.57].
- Mixed code — Orthogonal arrays generalized to mixed alphabets are caled mixed-level orthogonal arrays [17,18], (see [4; Ch. 9]). See Ref. [19] for bounds on mixed orthogonal arrays.
- Perfect-tensor code — Orthogonal arrays and \(d\)-uniform quantum states are related [20,21].
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- Victor V. Albert (2024-01-09) — most recent
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“Orthogonal array (OA)”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2024. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/orthogonal_array