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Constructions of codes with covering radius 2

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Constructions of nonbinary linear codes with covering radius R = 2 are considered. Infinite families of linear q-ary codes with R = 2, q ≥ 4, and a table of quaternary linear codes with R = 2, redundancy r ≤ 20, are given.

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Gérard Cohen Antoine Lobstein Gilles Zémor Simon Litsyn

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Davydov, A.A. (1992). Constructions of codes with covering radius 2. In: Cohen, G., Lobstein, A., Zémor, G., Litsyn, S. (eds) Algebraic Coding. Algebraic Coding 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 573. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0034337

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