Regent Results in Comma-Free Codes
- 1 January 1963
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Mathematical Society in Canadian Journal of Mathematics
- Vol. 15, 178-187
- https://doi.org/10.4153/cjm-1963-021-1
Abstract
A set D of k-letter words is called a comma-free dictionary (2), if whenever (a1a2 . . . ak) and (b1b2 . . . bk) are in D, the "overlaps" (a2a3 . . . akb1), (a3a4 . . . akb1b2), . . . , (akb1 . . . bk-1) are not in D. We say that two k-letter words are in the same equivalence class if one is a cyclic permutation of the other. An equivalence class is called complete if it contains k distinct members. Comma-freedom is violated if we choose words from incomplete equivalence classes, or if more than one word is chosen from the same complete class.Keywords
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- Comma-Free CodesCanadian Journal of Mathematics, 1958