In this paper we prove that in opposite to the cases of 6 and 8 variables, the Maiorana-McFarland construction does not describe the whole class of cubic bent functions in n variables for all n≥10. Moreover, we show that for almost all values of n, these functions can simultaneously be homogeneous and have no affine derivatives.
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@article{arxiv.1908.11271,
title = {Cubic bent functions outside the completed Maiorana-McFarland class},
author = {Alexandr Polujan and Alexander Pott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11271},
year = {2020}
}