Low-degree planar monomials in characteristic two (Q887934): Difference between revisions

Planar functions over finite fields give rise to finite projective planes and other combinatorial objects. They exist only in odd characteristic, but recently \textit{Y. Zhou} [J. Combin. Des. 21, No. 12, 563--584 (2013; Zbl 1290.05038)] introduced an even characteristic analogue which has similar applications. In this paper, the authors focus on monomial functions on \(\mathbb F_q\) of the form \(f(x) = cx^t\). In particular, they show that, if \(q\) is a power of \(2\), \(t\) is an integer with \(0 < t \leq q^{1/4}\) and \(c \in \mathbb F_q^*\), then a monomial function is planar on \(\mathbb F_q\) if and only if \(t\) is a power of \(2\). This extends a result in [\textit{K.-U. Schmidt} and \textit{Y. Zhou}, J. Algebr. Comb. 40, No. 2, 503--526 (2014; Zbl 1319.51008)], where the authors proved that \(t=1\) is the only odd value such that \(f(x)\) is planar for some \(c \neq 0\) over infinitely many fields.