# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

February  2020, 14(1): 23-33. doi: 10.3934/amc.2020003

## A construction of bent functions with optimal algebraic degree and large symmetric group

 1 School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China 2 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China 3 State Key Lab. of Cryptology, P.O.Box 5159, Beijing 100878 China

Received  April 2018 Revised  November 2018 Published  August 2019

Fund Project: This work was supported by National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61672330 and 61602287) and the State Scholarship Fund no.201808370069 from China Scholarship Council

As maximal, nonlinear Boolean functions, bent functions have many theoretical and practical applications in combinatorics, coding theory, and cryptography. In this paper, we present a construction of bent function $f_{a,S}$ with $n = 2m$ variables for any nonzero vector $a\in \mathbb{F}_{2}^{m}$ and subset $S$ of $\mathbb{F}_{2}^{m}$ satisfying $a+S = S$. We give a simple expression of the dual bent function of $f_{a,S}$ and prove that $f_{a,S}$ has optimal algebraic degree $m$ if and only if $|S|\equiv 2 (\bmod 4)$. This construction provides a series of bent functions with optimal algebraic degree and large symmetric group if $a$ and $S$ are chosen properly. We also give some examples of those bent functions $f_{a,S}$ and their dual bent functions.

Citation: Wenying Zhang, Zhaohui Xing, Keqin Feng. A construction of bent functions with optimal algebraic degree and large symmetric group. Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2020, 14 (1) : 23-33. doi: 10.3934/amc.2020003
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