Finite Fields and Their Applications ( IF 1.2 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ffa.2021.101834 Diana Davidova , Lilya Budaghyan , Claude Carlet , Tor Helleseth , Ferdinand Ihringer , Tim Penttila
Boolean functions, and bent functions in particular, are considered up to so-called EA-equivalence, which is the most general known equivalence relation preserving bentness of functions. However, for a special type of bent functions, so-called Niho bent functions there is a more general equivalence relation called o-equivalence which is induced from the equivalence of o-polynomials. In the present work we study, for a given o-polynomial, a general construction which provides all possible o-equivalent Niho bent functions, and we considerably simplify it to a form which excludes EA-equivalent cases. That is, we identify all cases which can potentially lead to pairwise EA-inequivalent Niho bent functions derived from o-equivalence of any given Niho bent function. Furthermore, we determine all pairwise EA-inequivalent Niho bent functions arising from all known o-polynomials via o-equivalence.
中文翻译:
Niho弯曲函数的o等价与EA等价的关系
布尔函数,特别是弯曲函数,被认为是所谓的EA等价性,它是最常用的保持函数弯曲性的等价关系。但是,对于特殊类型的折弯函数,即所谓的Niho折弯函数,存在一个更一般的等价关系,称为o-等价关系,它是由o多项式的等价关系引起的。在当前工作中,我们研究一个给定的o多项式,它提供了所有可能的o等效的Niho弯曲函数的一般构造,并且我们将其简化为排除EA等效情况的形式。也就是说,我们确定了所有可能导致源自任何给定Niho弯曲函数的o等效性的成对EA不等价Niho弯曲函数的所有情况。此外,