Almost Disjunctive List-Decoding Codes

A binary code is said to be a disjunctive list-decoding $s_L$-code, $s\ge1$, $L\ge1$, (briefly, LD $s_L$-code) if the code is identified by the incidence matrix of a family of finite sets in which the union of any $s$ sets can cover not more than $L-1$ other sets of the family. In this paper, we introduce a natural {\em probabilistic} generalization of LD $s_L$-code when the code is said to be an almost disjunctive LD $s_L$-code if the unions of {\em almost all} $s$ sets satisfy the given condition. We develop a random coding method based on the ensemble of binary constant-weight codes to obtain lower bounds on the capacity and error probability exponent of such codes. For the considered ensemble our lower bounds are asymptotically tight.

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