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The well-known Chowla and Zassenhaus conjecture, proved by Cohen in 1990, states that if p > ( d 2 − 3 d + 4 ) 2 , then there is no complete mapping polynomial f in F p [ x ] of degree d ≥ 2 . For arbitrary finite fields F q , a similar non-existence result was obtained recently by Işık, Topuzoğlu and Winterhof in terms of the Carlitz rank of f . Cohen, Mullen and Shiue generalized the Chowla–Zassenhaus–Cohen Theorem significantly in 1995, by considering differences of permutation polynomials. More precisely, they showed that if f and f + g are both permutation polynomials of degree d ≥ 2 over F p , with p > ( d 2 − 3 d + 4 ) 2 , then the degree k of g satisfies k ≥ 3 d / 5 , unless g is constant. In this article, assuming f and f + g are permutation polynomials in F q [ x ] , we give lower bounds for the Carlitz rank of f in terms of q and k . Our results generalize the above mentioned result of Işık et al. We also show for a special class of permutation polynomials f of Carlitz rank n ≥ 1 that if f + x k is a permutation over F q , with gcd ⁡ ( k + 1 , q − 1 ) = 1 , then k ≥ ( q − n ) / ( n + 3 ) . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For c ∈ F 2 n , a c -bent 4 function f from the finite field F 2 n to F 2 is a function with a flat spectrum with respect to the unitary transform V f c , which is designed to describe the component functions of modified planar functions. For c = 0 the transform V f c reduces to the conventional Walsh transform, and hence a 0-bent 4 function is bent. In this article we generalize the concept of partially bent functions to the transforms V f c . We show that every quadratic function is partially bent, and hence it is plateaued with respect to any of the transforms V f c . In detail we analyse two quadratic monomials. The first has values as small as possible in its spectra with respect to all transforms V f c , and the second has a flat spectrum for a large number of c . Moreover, we show that every quadratic function is c -bent 4 for at least three distinct c . In the last part we analyse a cubic monomial. We show that it is c -bent 4 only for c = 1 , the function is then called negabent, which shows that non-quadratic functions exhibit a different behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]