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Problems on q-Analogs in Coding Theory
The interest in -analogs of codes and designs has been increased in the
last few years as a consequence of their new application in error-correction
for random network coding. There are many interesting theoretical, algebraic,
and combinatorial coding problems concerning these q-analogs which remained
unsolved. The first goal of this paper is to make a short summary of the large
amount of research which was done in the area mainly in the last few years and
to provide most of the relevant references. The second goal of this paper is to
present one hundred open questions and problems for future research, whose
solution will advance the knowledge in this area. The third goal of this paper
is to present and start some directions in solving some of these problems.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0805.3528 by other author
Resolving sets for Johnson and Kneser graphs
A set of vertices in a graph is a {\em resolving set} for if, for
any two vertices , there exists such that the distances . In this paper, we consider the Johnson graphs and Kneser
graphs , and obtain various constructions of resolving sets for these
graphs. As well as general constructions, we show that various interesting
combinatorial objects can be used to obtain resolving sets in these graphs,
including (for Johnson graphs) projective planes and symmetric designs, as well
as (for Kneser graphs) partial geometries, Hadamard matrices, Steiner systems
and toroidal grids.Comment: 23 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl
On -covering designs
A -covering design , , is a collection
of -spaces of such that every
-space of is contained in at least one element of
. Let denote the minimum number of
-spaces in a -covering design . In this paper
improved upper bounds on , ,
, , and , , are presented. The results are achieved by constructing the related
-covering designs
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