Abstract
Bondy proved in 1972 that, given a family of n distinct substes of a set X of n elements, one can delete an element of X such that the truncated sets remain distinct. We give a linear algebraic proof of this result and generalize it to codes of minimal distance d.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 145-147 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A |
Volume | 89 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2000 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Bondy's theorem; linear algebra