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On a Lower Bound for the Number of Bent Functions at the Minimum Distance from a Bent Function in the Maiorana–McFarland Class. / Bykov, D. A.; Kolomeec, N. A.

в: Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Том 17, № 3, 09.2023, стр. 507-520.

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Bykov DA, Kolomeec NA. On a Lower Bound for the Number of Bent Functions at the Minimum Distance from a Bent Function in the Maiorana–McFarland Class. Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics. 2023 сент.;17(3):507-520. doi: 10.1134/S1990478923030055

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abstract = "Bent functions at the minimum distance 2^n from a given bent function of 2n variables belonging to the Maiorana–McFarland class \mathcal {M}_{2n} are investigated. We provide a criterion for a function obtained using theaddition of the indicator of an n -dimensional affine subspace to a given bent function from \mathcal {M}_{2n} to be a bent function as well. In other words, all bent functions at theminimum distance from a Maiorana–McFarland bent function are characterized. It is shown thatthe lower bound 2^{2n+1}-2^n for the number of bent functions at the minimum distance from f \in \mathcal {M}_{2n} is not attained if the permutation used for constructing f is not an APN function. It is proved that for any prime n\geq 5 there exist functions in \mathcal {M}_{2n} for which this lower bound is accurate. Examples of such bent functions arefound. It is also established that the permutations of EA-equivalent functions in \mathcal {M}_{2n} are affinely equivalent if the second derivatives of at least one of thepermutations are not identically zero.",
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