# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2017, 11(2): 347-352. doi: 10.3934/amc.2017027

## On construction of bent functions involving symmetric functions and their duals

 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Paris Ⅷ and Paris ⅩⅢ and Télécom ParisTech, LAGA, UMR 7539, CNRS, Sorbonne Paris Cité 2 School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China 3 State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China

* Corresponding author

Received  February 2016 Revised  March 2016 Published  May 2017

In this paper, we firstly compute the dual functions of elementary symmetric bent functions. Next, we derive a new secondary construction of bent functions (given with their dual functions) involving symmetric bent functions, leading to a generalization of the well-know Rothaus' construction.

Citation: Sihem Mesnager, Fengrong Zhang, Yong Zhou. On construction of bent functions involving symmetric functions and their duals. Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2017, 11 (2) : 347-352. doi: 10.3934/amc.2017027
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