It is shown that the problem of finding a codeword with least weight and whose weight is not a multiple ofkin a binary linear code belongs to the class of "nondeterministic polynomial (NP)-hard" problems for anykgeq 2. Some other related problems are shown to belong to the same class. These results were motivated by a conjecture due to Berlekamp, McEliece, and van Tilborg that the problem of finding the Hamming distance of a code is NP-hard.
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Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:27
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Issue:
6
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Date of Publication:
Nov 1981
- Page(s):
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794
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796
- ISSN :
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0018-9448
- Digital Object Identifier :
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10.1109/TIT.1981.1056419
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Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
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06 January 2003
- Issue Date :
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Nov 1981
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IEEE Information Theory Society