Bent functions, partial difference sets, and quasi-Frobenius local rings (Q1581791)
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Bent functions, partial difference sets, and quasi-Frobenius local rings (English)
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17 May 2001
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Up to now, bent functions were studied only over elementary abelian groups. The author generalizes this concept to arbitrary finite abelian groups. He then gives a characterization of finite quasi-Frobenius local rings as those finite rings which have a unique minimal (non-zero) ideal. The main part of the paper uses a maximal ideal \(M\) of such a ring \(R\) to extend bent functions and certain partial difference sets defined on \(M\times M\) to corresponding objects on \(R\times R\); in particular, he provides an inductive extension procedure for such objects over finite chain rings.
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bent functions
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quasi-Frobenius local rings
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partial difference sets
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