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During the last five decades, many different secondary constructions of bent functions were proposed in the literature. Nevertheless, apart from a few works, the question about the class inclusion of bent functions generated using these methods is rarely addressed. Especially, if such a “new” family belongs to the completed Maiorana–McFarland ($${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # ) class then there is no proper contribution to the theory of bent functions. In this article, we provide some fundamental results related to the inclusion in $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # and eventually we obtain many infinite families of bent functions that are provably outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # . The fact that a bent function f is in/outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # if and only if its dual is in/outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # is employed in the so-called 4-decomposition of a bent function on $${\mathbb {F}}_2^n$$ F 2 n , which was originally considered by Canteaut and Charpin (IEEE Trans Inf Theory 49(8):2004–2019, 2003) in terms of the second-order derivatives and later reformulated in (Hodžić et al. in IEEE Trans Inf Theory 65(11):7554–7565, 2019) in terms of the duals of its restrictions to the cosets of an $$(n-2)$$ ( n - 2 ) -dimensional subspace V. For each of the three possible cases of this 4-decomposition of a bent function (all four restrictions being bent, semi-bent, or 5-valued spectra functions), we provide generic methods for designing bent functions provably outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # . For instance, for the elementary case of defining a bent function $$h(\textbf{x},y_1,y_2)=f(\textbf{x}) \oplus y_1y_2$$ h ( x , y 1 , y 2 ) = f ( x ) ⊕ y 1 y 2 on $${\mathbb {F}}_2^{n+2}$$ F 2 n + 2 using a bent function f on $${\mathbb {F}}_2^n$$ F 2 n , we show that h is outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # if and only if f is outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # . This approach is then generalized to the case when two bent functions are used. More precisely, the concatenation $$f_1||f_1||f_2||(1\oplus f_2)$$ f 1 | | f 1 | | f 2 | | ( 1 ⊕ f 2 ) also gives bent functions outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # if $$f_1$$ f 1 or $$f_2$$ f 2 is outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # . The cases when the four restrictions of a bent function are semi-bent or 5-valued spectra functions are also considered and several design methods of constructing infinite families of bent functions outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # are provided.
During the last five decades, many different secondary constructions of bent functions were proposed in the literature. Nevertheless, apart from a few works, the question about the class inclusion of bent functions generated using these methods is rarely addressed. Especially, if such a “new” family belongs to the completed Maiorana–McFarland ($${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # ) class then there is no proper contribution to the theory of bent functions. In this article, we provide some fundamental results related to the inclusion in $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # and eventually we obtain many infinite families of bent functions that are provably outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # . The fact that a bent function f is in/outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # if and only if its dual is in/outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # is employed in the so-called 4-decomposition of a bent function on $${\mathbb {F}}_2^n$$ F 2 n , which was originally considered by Canteaut and Charpin (IEEE Trans Inf Theory 49(8):2004–2019, 2003) in terms of the second-order derivatives and later reformulated in (Hodžić et al. in IEEE Trans Inf Theory 65(11):7554–7565, 2019) in terms of the duals of its restrictions to the cosets of an $$(n-2)$$ ( n - 2 ) -dimensional subspace V. For each of the three possible cases of this 4-decomposition of a bent function (all four restrictions being bent, semi-bent, or 5-valued spectra functions), we provide generic methods for designing bent functions provably outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # . For instance, for the elementary case of defining a bent function $$h(\textbf{x},y_1,y_2)=f(\textbf{x}) \oplus y_1y_2$$ h ( x , y 1 , y 2 ) = f ( x ) ⊕ y 1 y 2 on $${\mathbb {F}}_2^{n+2}$$ F 2 n + 2 using a bent function f on $${\mathbb {F}}_2^n$$ F 2 n , we show that h is outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # if and only if f is outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # . This approach is then generalized to the case when two bent functions are used. More precisely, the concatenation $$f_1||f_1||f_2||(1\oplus f_2)$$ f 1 | | f 1 | | f 2 | | ( 1 ⊕ f 2 ) also gives bent functions outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # if $$f_1$$ f 1 or $$f_2$$ f 2 is outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # . The cases when the four restrictions of a bent function are semi-bent or 5-valued spectra functions are also considered and several design methods of constructing infinite families of bent functions outside $${{{\mathcal {M}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}}^\#$$ M M # are provided.
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Using $$P_\tau $$ property for designing bent functions provably outside the completed Maiorana–McFarland class
In this article, we identify certain instances of bent functions, constructed using the so-called $$P_\tau $$ P τ property, that are provably outside the completed Maiorana–McFarland ($${\mathcal{M}\mathcal{M}}^\#$$ M M # ) class. This also partially answers an open problem in posed by Kan et al. (IEEE Trans Inf Theory, https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2022.3140180, 2022). We show that this design framework (using the $$P_\tau $$ P τ property), can provide instances of bent functions that are outside the known classes of bent functions, including the classes $${\mathcal{M}\mathcal{M}}^\#$$ M M # , $${{\mathcal {C}}},{{\mathcal {D}}}$$ C , D and $${{\mathcal {D}}}_0$$ D 0 , where the latter three were introduced by Carlet in the early nineties. We provide two generic methods for identifying such instances, where most notably one of these methods uses permutations that may admit linear structures. For the first time, a set of sufficient conditions for the functions of the form $$h(y,z)=Tr(y\pi (z)) + G_1(Tr_1^m(\alpha _1y),\ldots ,Tr_1^m(\alpha _ky))G_2(Tr_1^m(\beta _{k+1}z),\ldots ,Tr_1^m(\beta _{\tau }z))+ G_3(Tr_1^m(\alpha _1y),\ldots ,Tr_1^m(\alpha _ky))$$ h ( y , z ) = T r ( y π ( z ) ) + G 1 ( T r 1 m ( α 1 y ) , … , T r 1 m ( α k y ) ) G 2 ( T r 1 m ( β k + 1 z ) , … , T r 1 m ( β τ z ) ) + G 3 ( T r 1 m ( α 1 y ) , … , T r 1 m ( α k y ) ) to be bent and outside $${\mathcal{M}\mathcal{M}}^\#$$ M M # is specified without a strong assumption that the components of the permutation $$\pi $$ π do not admit linear structures.
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