Generalized Hadamard full propelinear codes (Q831152)

In this paper the authors are interested in codes from cocyclic generalized Hadamard matrices. They have introduced a new class of codes and called it generalized Hadamard full propelinear codes. One of the main point of these type of codes is that they can perform better than some linear codes. As a propelinear code is also a group, it is possible to define a generator matrix even if the code is nonlinear. The rows of the generator matrix are the codewords that are associated with the generators of the group. Thus, the code can be built from a few codewords using the propelinear operation associated to the propelinear code. This offers the data storage benefits of a linear code, i.e., we can store just a set of generators and the group operation. As a nice illustration the authors provide interesting examples.