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Existence of balanced functions that are not derivative of bent functions

Information Theory 2025-12-01 v1 math.IT

Abstract

It is disproved the Tokareva's conjecture that any balanced boolean function of appropriate degree is a derivative of some bent function. This result is based on new upper bounds for the numbers of bent and plateaued functions.

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@article{arxiv.2309.04244,
  title  = {Existence of balanced functions that are not derivative of bent functions},
  author = {Vladimir N. Potapov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.04244},
  year   = {2025}
}

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