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On the Correlation Distribution for a Ternary Niho Decimation

Information Theory 2016-12-21 v1 math.IT

Abstract

In this paper, let n=2mn=2m and d=3m+12d=3^{m+1}-2 with m2m\geq2 and gcd(d,3n1)=1\gcd(d,3^n-1)=1. By studying the weight distribution of the ternary Zetterberg code and counting the numbers of solutions of some equations over the finite field F3n\mathbb{F}_{3^n}, the correlation distribution between a ternary mm-sequence of period 3n13^n-1 and its dd-decimation sequence is completely determined. This is the first time that the correlation distribution for a non-binary Niho decimation has been determined since 1976.

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@article{arxiv.1612.06686,
  title  = {On the Correlation Distribution for a Ternary Niho Decimation},
  author = {Yongbo Xia and Nian Li and Xiangyong Zeng and Tor Helleseth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06686},
  year   = {2016}
}
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