Tight packings of Hamming spheres (Q2563715)

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Tight packings of Hamming spheres
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    Tight packings of Hamming spheres (English)
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    16 December 1996
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    It is proved that the binary Hamming space of dimension \(n\) cannot be partitioned into 3 mutually disjoint spheres. On the other hand, for every \(k>3\) the \((k-2)\)-dimensional Hamming space can be partitioned into \(k\) spheres.
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    packings
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    Hamming spheres
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    Hamming space
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