Full-Rank Perfect Codes over Finite Fields

In this paper, we propose a construction of fullrank q-ary 1-perfect codes over finite fields. This construction is a generalization of the Etzion and Vardy construction of fullrank binary 1-perfect codes (1994). Properties of i-components of q-ary Hamming codes are investigated and the construction of full-rank q-ary 1-perfect codes is based on these properties. The switching construction of 1-perfect codes are generalized for the q-ary case. We give a generalization of the concept of i-component of 1-perfect codes and introduce the concept of (i, σ)-components of q-ary 1-perfect codes. We also present a generalization of the Lindström and Schönheim construction of q-ary 1-perfect codes and provide a lower bound on the number of pairwise distinct q-ary 1-perfect codes of length n.