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On minimal Hamming compatible distances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2014

Parsa Bakhtary  and
Othman Echi
Parsa Bakhtary
Affiliation:
(Data Scientist) Facebook, Inc. Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.. bakhtary@gmail.com
Othman Echi
Affiliation:
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Department of Mathematics and Statistics PO Box 5046, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.; othechi@yahoo.com; echi@kfupm.edu.sa
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Abstract

A Hamming compatible metric is an integer-valued metric on the words of a finite alphabetwhich agrees with the usual Hamming distance for words of equal length. We define a newHamming compatible metric and show this metric is minimal in the class of all“well-behaved” Hamming compatible metrics. This gives a negative answer to a questionstated by Echi in his paper [O. Echi, Appl. Math. Sci. (Ruse) 3(2009) 813–824.].

Keywords

Edit distanceHamming distancemetric space

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Research Article
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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 48 , Issue 5 , December 2014 , pp. 495 - 503
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© EDP Sciences 2014

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