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Quantizing and decoding for usual lattices in the L p -metric

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Algebraic Coding (Algebraic Coding 1993)

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We generalize the Conway-Sloane algorithm for the decoding of usual lattices to the L p norm. In particular, the Voronoi diagrams and covering radii of some of these lattices, namely ℤn, Dn, D *n A n, are computed. Some of the results hold only for the L 1-metric.

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G. Cohen S. Litsyn A. Lobstein G. Zémor

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Loyer, P., Solé, P. (1994). Quantizing and decoding for usual lattices in the L p -metric. In: Cohen, G., Litsyn, S., Lobstein, A., Zémor, G. (eds) Algebraic Coding. Algebraic Coding 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 781. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57843-9_23

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