Additive quaternary codes related to exceptional linear quaternary codes

Abstract

We study additive quaternary codes whose parameters are close to those of the extended cyclic [12; 6; 6]4-code or to the quaternary linear codes generated by the elliptic quadric in PG(3; 4) or its dual. In particular we characterize those codes in the category of additive codes and construct some additive codes whose parameters are better than those of any linear quaternary code.