On the rectangularity of nonlinear block codes
Vladimir R. Sidorenko, I. Martin, B. Honsry · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1999
We give simple sufficient conditions for a code to be rectangular and show that large families of well-known nonlinear codes are rectangular. These include Hadamard (1893), Levenshtein (1964), Delsarte-Goethals (1975), Kerdock (1972), and Nordstrom-Robinson (1967) codes. Being rectangular, each of these codes has a unique minimal trellis that can be used for soft-decision maximum-likelihood decoding.