human: Given a node-centered hypergraph: <hypergraph>, where nodes represent authors and hyperedges represent groups of authors who co-authored the same paper.

Details of the hypergraph:
Center node: "Reduced-state representations for trellis codes using constellation symmetry"
  Abstract: This paper presents a symmetry-based technique for trellis-code state-diagram reduction that has more general applicability than the quasi-regularity technique of Rouanne et al. and Zehavi et al. for trellis codes using standard constellations and labelings. For a 2/sup /spl nu/x/-state trellis code, the new technique reduces the 2/sup 2/spl nu/x/ state diagram to 2/sup /spl nu/x+/spl nu/q/-state diagram where 0/spl les//spl nu//sub q//spl les//spl nu//sub x/. The particular value of /spl nu//sub q/ depends on the constellation labeling and the convolutional encoder. For standard rate-k/(k+1) set-partitioned trellis codes, /spl nu//sub q/=0, and the overall number of states is the same with the new technique as with quasi-regularity. For codes that are not quasi-regular (and thus not amenable to the quasi-regularity technique), the new technique often provides some improvement (when /spl nu//sub q/</spl nu//sub x/). For 8-phase-shift-keying trellis codes, the new technique always yields /spl nu//sub q/=0.

Connected through hyperedge HE-1 (induced by source paper "Efficient computation of trellis code generating functions"):
  with members:
    (none)

Question: Please tell me which research area the center author belongs to. The 4 classes are: Computer science, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Psychology, Business. Directly output the class name.

gpt: Mathematics