Nonassociative algebras: some applications. (Q1884038)

The paper under review is a survey which presents results by different authors in order to describe two applications of non-associative algebras, an application to group theory in the line of the Restricted Burnside Problem and an application to Coding theory and Cryptography. In the first case, a group problem is translated into non-associative algebra terms, solved in this context and translated back into group terms. In the second case, it is shown that non-associative structures provide the construction of new error correcting codes with good properties by using non-associative algebras instead of classical finite fields and the generation of linear recursive sequences.