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More on additive triples of bijections

Combinatorics 2017-04-11 v1 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

We study additive properties of the set SS of bijections (or permutations) {1,,n}G\{1,\dots,n\}\to G, thought of as a subset of GnG^n, where GG is an arbitrary abelian group of order nn. Our main result is an asymptotic for the number of solutions to π1+π2+π3=f\pi_1 + \pi_2 + \pi_3 = f with π1,π2,π3S\pi_1,\pi_2,\pi_3\in S, where f:{1,,n}Gf:\{1,\dots,n\}\to G is an arbitary function satisfying i=1nf(i)=G\sum_{i=1}^n f(i) = \sum G. This extends recent work of Manners, Mrazovi\'c, and the author. Using the same method we also prove a less interesting asymptotic for solutions to π1+π2+π3+π4=f\pi_1 + \pi_2 + \pi_3 + \pi_4 = f, and we also show that the distribution π1+π2\pi_1+\pi_2 is close to flat in L2L^2. As in the previous paper, our method is based on Fourier analysis, and we prove our results by carefully carving up G^n\widehat{G}^n and bounding various character sums. This is most complicated when GG has even order, say when G=F2dG = \mathbf{F}_2^d. At the end of the paper we explain two applications, one coming from the Latin squares literature (counting transversals in Latin hypercubes) and one from cryptography (PRP-to-PRF conversion).

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@article{arxiv.1704.02407,
  title  = {More on additive triples of bijections},
  author = {Sean Eberhard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02407},
  year   = {2017}
}

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