New Families of pp-ary Sequences of Period pn−12\frac{p^n-1}{2} With Low Maximum Correlation Magnitude

Let $p$ be an odd prime such that $p \equiv 3\;{\rm mod}\;4$ and $n$ be an odd integer. In this paper, two new families of $p$-ary sequences of period $N = \frac{p^n-1}{2}$ are constructed by two decimated $p$-ary m-sequences $m(2t)$ and $m(dt)$, where $d = 4$ and $d = (p^n + 1)/2=N+1$. The upper bound on the magnitude of correlation values of two sequences in the family is derived using Weil bound. Their upper bound is derived as $\frac{3}{\sqrt{2}} \sqrt{N+\frac{1}{2}}+\frac{1}{2}$ and the family size is 4N, which is four times the period of the sequence.Comment: 9 page, no figure

On the Cross-Correlation of a pp-ary m-Sequence and its Decimated Sequences by d=pn+1pk+1+pn−12d=\frac{p^n+1}{p^k+1}+\frac{p^n-1}{2}

In this paper, for an odd prime $p$ such that $p\equiv 3\bmod 4$, odd $n$, and $d=(p^n+1)/(p^k+1)+(p^n-1)/2$ with $k|n$, the value distribution of the exponential sum $S(a,b)$ is calculated as $a$ and $b$ run through $\mathbb{F}_{p^n}$. The sequence family $\mathcal{G}$ in which each sequence has the period of $N=p^n-1$ is also constructed. The family size of $\mathcal{G}$ is $p^n$ and the correlation magnitude is roughly upper bounded by $(p^k+1)\sqrt{N}/2$. The weight distribution of the relevant cyclic code $\mathcal{C}$ over $\mathbb{F}_p$ with the length $N$ and the dimension ${\rm dim}_{\mathbb{F}_p}\mathcal{C}=2n$ is also derived. Our result includes the case in \cite{Xia} as a special case