On unbalanced Boolean functions with best correlation immunity
Abstract
It is known that the order of correlation immunity of a nonconstant unbalanced Boolean function in variables cannot exceed ; moreover, it is if and only if the function corresponds to an equitable -partition of the -cube with an eigenvalue of the quotient matrix. The known series of such functions have proportion , , or of the number of ones and zeros. We prove that if a nonconstant unbalanced Boolean function attains the correlation-immunity bound and has ratio of the number of ones and zeros, then is divisible by . In particular, this proves the nonexistence of equitable partitions for an infinite series of putative quotient matrices. We also establish that there are exactly equivalence classes of the equitable partitions of the -cube with quotient matrix and classes, with . These parameters correspond to the Boolean functions in variables with correlation immunity and proportion and , respectively (the case remains unsolved). This also implies the characterization of the orthogonal arrays OA and OA.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1812.02166,
title = {On unbalanced Boolean functions with best correlation immunity},
author = {Denis S. Krotov and Konstantin V. Vorob'ev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.02166},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
v3: final; title changed; revised; OA(512,11,2,6) discussed