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    Chen, Jiyong; Wang, Yanpeng; Xia, Binzhou

    Discrete mathematics, 20/May , Volume: 343, Issue: 5
    Journal Article

    A subset C of the vertex set of a graph Γ is called a perfect code in Γ if every vertex of Γ is at distance no more than 1 to exactly one vertex of C. A subset C of a group G is called a perfect code of G if C is a perfect code in some Cayley graph of G. In this paper we give sufficient and necessary conditions for a subgroup H of a finite group G to be a perfect code of G. Based on this, we determine the finite groups that have no nontrivial subgroup as a perfect code, which answers a question by Ma, Walls, Wang and Zhou.