Abstract: | The -additive codes are subgroups of , and can be seen as a generalization of linear codes over and . A -linear Hadamard code is a binary Hadamard code which is the Gray map image of a -additive code. A partial classification of these codes by using the dimension of the kernel is known. In this paper, we establish that some -linear Hadamard codes of length are equivalent, once is fixed. This allows us to improve the known upper bounds for the number of such nonequivalent codes. Moreover, up to , this new upper bound coincides with a known lower bound (based on the rank and dimension of the kernel). Finally, when we focus on , the full classification of the -linear Hadamard codes of length is established by giving the exact number of such codes. |