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Incoding theory, group codes are a type of code. Group codes consist of
linear block codes which are subgroups of
, where
is a finite Abelian group.
A systematic group code is a code over
of order
defined by
homomorphisms which determine the parity check bits. The remaining
bits are the information bits themselves.
Group codes can be constructed by special generator matrices which resemble generator matrices of linear block codes except that the elements of those matrices are endomorphisms of the group instead of symbols from the code's alphabet. For example, considering the generator matrix
the elements of this matrix are matrices which are endomorphisms. In this scenario, each codeword can be represented as
where
are the generatorsof
.