Paper 2012/037

Some results on $q$-ary bent functions

Deep Singh, Maheshanand Bhaintwal, and Brajesh Kumar Singh

Abstract

Kumar et al.(1985) have extended the notion of classical bent Boolean functions in the generalized setup on $\BBZ_q^n$. They have provided an analogue of classical Maiorana-McFarland type bent functions. In this paper, we study the crosscorrelation of a subclass of such generalized Maiorana-McFarland (\mbox{GMMF}) type bent functions. We provide a construction of quaternary ($q = 4$) bent functions on $n+1$ variables in terms of their subfunctions on $n$-variables. Analogues of sum-of-squares indicator and absolute indicator of crosscorrelation of Boolean functions are defined in the generalized setup. Further, $q$-ary functions are studied in terms of these indictors and some upper bounds of these indicators are obtained. Finally, we provide some constructions of balanced quaternary functions with high nonlinearity under Lee metric.

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Keywords
$q$-ary bent functionsWalsh-Hadamard transformParseval's identityGMMF type bent functionsCrosscorrelation
Contact author(s)
deepsinghspn @ gmail com
History
2012-04-22: revised
2012-01-29: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2012/037
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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/037,
      author = {Deep Singh and Maheshanand Bhaintwal and Brajesh Kumar Singh},
      title = {Some results on $q$-ary bent functions},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2012/037},
      year = {2012},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/037}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/037}
}
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