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Remarks on greedy codes

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Algebraic Coding (Algebraic Coding 1991)

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Research partially supported by NSA Grant MDA 904-91-H-0003

We thank G. Kabatyanski for pointing out Levenshtein's results, reference 3. This paper contains the first proof of the linearity of lexicodes. It also states, but does not prove, that B-greedy codes are linear.

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Gérard Cohen Antoine Lobstein Gilles Zémor Simon Litsyn

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Pless, V. (1992). Remarks on greedy codes. 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/BFb0034341

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