A characterization of binary bent functions


Claude Carlet

GREYC, Université de Caen
and
INRIA, projet CODES
BP 105
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France
Claude.Carlet@inria.fr

Philippe Guillot
Thomson-CSF Communication
66 rue du Fossé blanc
92231 Gennevilliers Cedex, France.

Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 76(2): 328-335, 1996.


Abstract

A recent paper by Carlet introduces a general class of binary bent functions on GF(2)n (n even) whose elements are expressed by means of characteristic functions (indicators) of n/2-dimensional vector-subspaces of GF(2)n. An extended version of this class is introduced in the same paper; it is conjectured that this version is coinciding with the whole class of bent functions. In the present paper, we prove that this conjecture is true.