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Nonlinearity measures of random Boolean functions

Combinatorics 2013-08-15 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

The r-th order nonlinearity of a Boolean function is the minimum number of elements that have to be changed in its truth table to arrive at a Boolean function of degree at most r. It is shown that the (suitably normalised) r-th order nonlinearity of a random Boolean function converges strongly for all r\ge 1. This extends results by Rodier for r=1 and by Dib for r=2. The methods in the present paper are mostly of elementary combinatorial nature and also lead to simpler proofs in the cases that r=1 or 2.

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@article{arxiv.1308.3112,
  title  = {Nonlinearity measures of random Boolean functions},
  author = {Kai-Uwe Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3112},
  year   = {2013}
}
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