Permutation codes are a family of [[error correction code]] that were introduced first by [[David Slepian|Slepian]] in 1965 <ref>{{Cite web |title=Codes on Euclidean Spheres, Volume 63 - 1st Edition |url=https://www.elsevier.com/books/codes-on-euclidean-spheres/ericson/978-0-444-50329-9 |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=www.elsevier.com}} Holland Mathematical Library. North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 2001.</ref> <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Slepian |first=D. |date=March 1965-03 |title=Permutation modulation |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1445610 |journal=Proceedings of the IEEE |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=228–236 |doi=10.1109/PROC.1965.3680 |issn=1558-2256}}</ref> and have been widely studied both in [[Combinatorics]] <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cameron |first=Peter J. |date=2010-02-01 |title=Permutation codes |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2009.03.044 |journal=European Journal of Combinatorics |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=482–490 |doi=10.1016/j.ejc.2009.03.044 |issn=0195-6698}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tarnanen |first=H. |date=January 1999-01 |title=Upper Bounds on Permutation Codes via Linear Programming |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/eujc.1998.0272 |journal=European Journal of Combinatorics |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=101–114 |doi=10.1006/eujc.1998.0272 |issn=0195-6698}} J. Combin., 20(1):101–114, 1999</ref> and [[Information theory]] due to their applications related to [[Flash memory]] <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Han |first=Hui |last2=Mu |first2=Jianjun |last3=He |first3=Yu-Cheng |last4=Jiao |first4=Xiaopeng |last5=Ma |first5=Wenping |date=April 2020-04 |title=Multi-Permutation Codes Correcting a Single Burst Unstable Deletions in Flash Memory |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8959303/ |journal=IEEE Communications Letters |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=720–724 |doi=10.1109/LCOMM.2020.2966619 |issn=1089-7798}}</ref> and [[Power-line communication]] <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chu |first=Wensong |last2=Colbourn |first2=Charles J. |last3=Dukes |first3=Peter |date=May 2004-05 |title=Constructions for Permutation Codes in Powerline Communications |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:desi.0000029212.52214.71 |journal=Designs, Codes and Cryptography |volume=32 |issue=1-3 |pages=51–64 |doi=10.1023/b:desi.0000029212.52214.71 |issn=0925-1022}}</ref>.