Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B07a (1983).
[Formerly: Publ. I.R.M.A. Strasbourg, 1983, 213/S-06, p. 35-62.]

Jean Berstel and Dominique Perrin

Codes Circulaires

Abstract. This text provides a survey of the known properties of a class of codes for which we coined the name "circular". Essentially, it is a class of codes which allow a unique decoding in terms of circular words.


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The paper has finally become Chapter VII of the book "Theory of Codes" [Academic Press, Orlando, Fla., 1985] by the authors.