Authors:
Andrew Klapper, 779A Anderson Hall, Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506-0046, klapper at cs.uky.edu.
www.cs.uky.edu/~klapper/andy.html
Iiro Honkal, University of Turku.
Abstract The multicovering radii of a code are a recently introduced natural generalizations of the covering radius measuring the smallest radius of balls around codewords that cover all $m$-tuples of vectors. In this paper we prove a new identity relating the multicovering radii of a code to a relativized notion of ordinary covering radius. This identity is used to prove new bounds on the multicovering radii of particular codes.
Index Terms -- Covering radius, multicovering radius, coding theory, Hamming codes.