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In a paper concerning the relationship between coding theory and factorization theory Restivo, Salemi, and Sportelli made a conjecture that if subsets possess certain properties then they cannot form a factorization of a finite cyclic group. In this note it is shown that in fact such factorizations do exist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The action of the Bernstein operators on Schur functions was given in terms of codes by Carrell and Goulden (2011) and extended to the analog in Schur Q-functions in our previous work. We define a new combinatorial model of extended codes and show that both of these results follow from a natural combinatorial relation induced on codes. The new algebraic structure provides a natural setting for Schur functions indexed by compositions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]