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Various problems in engineering and natural science demand binary sequences that do not resemble translates of themselves, that is, the sequences must have small aperiodic autocorrelation at every nonzero shift. If $f$ is a sequence, then…
Pairs of binary sequences formed using linear combinations of multiplicative characters of finite fields are exhibited that, when compared to random sequence pairs, simultaneously achieve significantly lower mean square autocorrelation…
Sequences with low aperiodic autocorrelation are used in communications and remote sensing for synchronization and ranging. The autocorrelation demerit factor of a sequence is the sum of the squared magnitudes of its autocorrelation values…
The Pursley-Sarwate criterion of a pair of finite complex-valued sequences measures the collective smallness of the aperiodic autocorrelations and the aperiodic crosscorrelations of the two sequences. It is known that this quantity is…
Gyarmati, Mauduit and S\'ark\"ozy introduced the cross-correlation measure $\Phi_k(G)$ of order $k$ to measure the level of pseudorandom properties of families of finite binary sequences. In an earlier paper we estimated the…
Sequences with low aperiodic autocorrelation and crosscorrelation are used in communications and remote sensing. Golay and Shapiro independently devised a recursive construction that produces families of complementary pairs of binary…
Pseudorandom sequences are used extensively in communications and remote sensing. Correlation provides one measure of pseudorandomness, and low correlation is an important factor determining the performance of digital sequences in…
Gyarmati, Mauduit and S\'ark\"ozy introduced the \textit{cross-correlation measure} $\Phi_k(\mathcal{F})$ to measure the randomness of families of binary sequences $\mathcal{F} \subset \{-1,1\}^N$. In this paper we study the order of…
Low correlation (finite length) sequences are used in communications and remote sensing. One seeks codebooks of sequences in which each sequence has low aperiodic autocorrelation at all nonzero shifts, and each pair of distinct sequences…
We study the relationship between two measures of pseudorandomness for families of binary sequences: family complexity and cross-correlation measure introduced by Ahlswede et al.\ in 2003 and recently by Gyarmati et al., respectively. More…
Low autocorrelation binary sequences (LABS) are very important for communication applications. And it is a notoriously difficult computational problem to find binary sequences with low aperiodic autocorrelations. The problem can also be…
Borwein and Mossinghoff investigated the Rudin-Shapiro-like sequences, which are infinite families of binary sequences, usually represented as polynomials. Each family of Rudin-Shapiro-like sequences is obtained from a starting sequence…
Aperiodic autocorrelation is an important indicator of performance of sequences used in communications, remote sensing, and scientific instrumentation. Knowing a sequence's autocorrelation function, which reports the autocorrelation at…
In this paper, we present a computational search for best-known merit factors of longer binary sequences with an odd length. Finding low autocorrelation binary sequences with optimal or suboptimal merit factors is a very difficult…
The arithmetic crosscorrelation of binary $m$-sequences with coprime periods $2^{n_1}-1$ and $2^{n_2}-1$\ ($\gcd(n_1,n_2)=1$) is determined. The result shows that the absolute value of arithmetic crosscorrelation of such binary…
The identification of binary sequences with large merit factor (small mean-squared aperiodic autocorrelation) is an old problem of complex analysis and combinatorial optimization, with practical importance in digital communications…
We consider the class of Rudin-Shapiro-like polynomials, whose $L^4$ norms on the complex unit circle were studied by Borwein and Mossinghoff. The polynomial $f(z)=f_0+f_1 z + \cdots + f_d z^d$ is identified with the sequence…
In this paper we study almost $p$-ary sequences and their autocorrelation coefficients. We first study the number $\ell$ of distinct out-of-phase autocorrelation coefficients for an almost $p$-ary sequence of period $n+s$ with $s$…
Three measures of pseudorandomness of finite binary sequences were introduced by Mauduit and S\'ark\"ozy in 1997 and have been studied extensively since then: the normality measure, the well-distribution measure, and the correlation measure…
Pseudo-random sequences with good statistical property, such as low autocorrelation, high linear complexity and large 2-adic complexity, have been applied in stream cipher. In general, it is difficult to give both the linear complexity and…