文摘
Recently, new families of quaternary linear Reed-Muller codes such that, after the Gray map, the corresponding ℤ4-linear codes have the same parameters and properties as the codes in the usual binary linear Reed-Muller family have been introduced. A structural invariant, the rank, for binary codes is used to classify some of these ℤ4-linear codes. The rank is established generalizing the known results about the rank for ℤ4-linear Hadamard and ℤ4-linear extended 1-perfect codes.