On the Conjecture on APN Functions

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Authors: Moises Delgado, Heeralal Janwa 

Publication date: 23 July 2012

Abstract: An almost perfect nonlinear (APN) function (necessarily a polynomial function) on a finite field $mathbbF$ is called exceptional APN, if it is also APN on infinitely many extensions of $mathbbF$. In this article we consider the most studied case of $mathbbF=mathbb{F}_{2^n}$. A conjecture of Janwa-Wilson and McGuire-Janwa-Wilson (1993/1996), settled in 2011, was that the only exceptional monomial APN functions are the monomials $x^n$, where $n=2^i+1$ or $n=2^{2i}-2^i+1$ (the Gold or the Kasami exponents respectively). A subsequent conjecture states that any exceptional APN function is one of the monomials just described. One of our result is that all functions of the form $f(x)=x^{2^k+1}+h(x)$ (for any odd degree $h(x)$, with a mild condition in few cases), are not exceptional APN, extending substantially several recent results towards the resolution of the stated conjecture.

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