# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2015, 9(2): 199-210. doi: 10.3934/amc.2015.9.199

## A class of quaternary sequences with low correlation

 1 Information Security and National Computing Grid Laboratory, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610031, China, China 2 Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen

Received  March 2014 Revised  November 2014 Published  May 2015

A class of quaternary sequences $\mathbb{S}_{\lambda}$ had been proven to be optimal for some special values of $\lambda$. In this note, $\mathbb{S}_{\lambda}$ is investigated for all $\lambda$ by virtue of the $\mathbb{Z}_4$-valued quadratic forms over Galois rings. As a consequence, a new class of quaternary sequences with low correlation is obtained and the correlation distribution is also completely determined. It also turns out that the known optimal quaternary sequences $\mathbb{S}_{\lambda}$ for particular $\lambda$ can be easily obtained from our approach.
Citation: Nian Li, Xiaohu Tang, Tor Helleseth. A class of quaternary sequences with low correlation. Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2015, 9 (2) : 199-210. doi: 10.3934/amc.2015.9.199
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##### References:
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