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Semifields, relative difference sets, and bent functions
Recently, the interest in semifields has increased due to the discovery of
several new families and progress in the classification problem. Commutative
semifields play an important role since they are equivalent to certain planar
functions (in the case of odd characteristic) and to modified planar functions
in even characteristic. Similarly, commutative semifields are equivalent to
relative difference sets. The goal of this survey is to describe the connection
between these concepts. Moreover, we shall discuss power mappings that are
planar and consider component functions of planar mappings, which may be also
viewed as projections of relative difference sets. It turns out that the
component functions in the even characteristic case are related to negabent
functions as well as to -valued bent functions.Comment: Survey paper for the RICAM workshop "Emerging applications of finite
fields", 09-13 December 2013, Linz, Austria. This article will appear in the
proceedings volume for this workshop, published as part of the "Radon Series
on Computational and Applied Mathematics" by DeGruyte
Symplectic spreads, planar functions and mutually unbiased bases
In this paper we give explicit descriptions of complete sets of mutually
unbiased bases (MUBs) and orthogonal decompositions of special Lie algebras
obtained from commutative and symplectic semifields, and
from some other non-semifield symplectic spreads. Relations between various
constructions are also studied. We show that the automorphism group of a
complete set of MUBs is isomorphic to the automorphism group of the
corresponding orthogonal decomposition of the Lie algebra .
In the case of symplectic spreads this automorphism group is determined by the
automorphism group of the spread. By using the new notion of pseudo-planar
functions over fields of characteristic two we give new explicit constructions
of complete sets of MUBs.Comment: 20 page
MUBs inequivalence and affine planes
There are fairly large families of unitarily inequivalent complete sets of
N+1 mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in C^N for various prime powers N. The
number of such sets is not bounded above by any polynomial as a function of N.
While it is standard that there is a superficial similarity between complete
sets of MUBs and finite affine planes, there is an intimate relationship
between these large families and affine planes. This note briefly summarizes
"old" results that do not appear to be well-known concerning known families of
complete sets of MUBs and their associated planes.Comment: This is the version of this paper appearing in J. Mathematical
Physics 53, 032204 (2012) except for format changes due to the journal's
style policie
A new family of semifields with 2 parameters
A new family of commutative semifields with two parameters is presented. Its
left and middle nucleus are both determined. Furthermore, we prove that for any
different pairs of parameters, these semifields are not isotopic. It is also
shown that, for some special parameters, one semifield in this family can lead
to two inequivalent planar functions. Finally, using similar construction, new
APN functions are given
On isotopisms and strong isotopisms of commutative presemifields
In this paper we prove that the ( odd prime power and
odd) commutative semifields constructed by Bierbrauer in \cite{BierbrauerSub}
are isotopic to some commutative presemifields constructed by Budaghyan and
Helleseth in \cite{BuHe2008}. Also, we show that they are strongly isotopic if
and only if . Consequently, for each
there exist isotopic commutative presemifields of order (
odd) defining CCZ--inequivalent planar DO polynomials.Comment: References updated, pag. 5 corrected Multiplication of commutative
LMPTB semifield
(2^n,2^n,2^n,1)-relative difference sets and their representations
We show that every -relative difference set in
relative to can be represented by a polynomial f(x)\in \F_{2^n}[x],
where is a permutation for each nonzero . We call such an
a planar function on \F_{2^n}. The projective plane obtained from
in the way of Ganley and Spence \cite{ganley_relative_1975} is
coordinatized, and we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions of to be
a presemifield plane. We also prove that a function on \F_{2^n} with
exactly two elements in its image set and is planar, if and only if,
for any x,y\in\F_{2^n}
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