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2-to-1 mappings over finite fields play an important role in symmetric cryptography, particularly in the constructions of APN functions, bent functions, and semi-bent functions. Very recently, Mesnager and Qu [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 65 (12): 7884-7895] provided a systematic study of 2-to-1 mappings over finite fields. In particular, they determined all 2-to-1 mappings of degree at most 4 over any finite field. Besides, another research direction is to consider 2-to-1 polynomials with few terms. Some results about 2-to-1 monomials and binomials have been obtained in [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 65 (12): 7884-7895]. Motivated by their work, in this present paper, we push further the study of 2-to-1 mappings, particularly over finite fields with characteristic 2 (binary case being the most interesting for applications). Firstly, we completely determine 2-to-1 polynomials with degree 5 over F2n using the well-known Hasse-Weil bound. Besides, we consider 2-to-1 mappings with few terms, mainly trinomials and quadrinomials. Using the multivariate method and the resultant of two polynomials, we present two classes of 2-to-1 trinomials, which explain all the examples of 2-to-1 trinomials of the form xk + β xℓ + α ∈ F2n[x] with n ≤ 7. We derive twelve classes of 2-to-1 quadrinomials with trivial coefficients over F2n. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two-to-one (2-to-1) mappings over finite fields play an important role in symmetric cryptography. In particular they allow to design APN functions, bent functions and semi-bent functions. In this paper we provide a systematic study of two-to-one mappings that are defined over finite fields. We characterize such mappings by means of the Walsh transforms. We also present several constructions, including an AGW-like criterion, constructions with the form of $x^{r}h(x^{(q-1)/d})$ , those from permutation polynomials, from linear translators and from APN functions. Then we present 2-to-1 polynomial mappings in classical classes of polynomials: linearized polynomials and monomials, low degree polynomials, Dickson polynomials and Muller-Cohen-Matthews polynomials, etc. Lastly, we show applications of 2-to-1 mappings over finite fields for constructions of bent Boolean and vectorial bent functions, semi-bent functions, planar functions and permutation polynomials. In all those respects, we shall review what is known and provide several new results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bent functions are optimal combinatorial objects. Since their introduction, substantial efforts have been directed toward their study in the last three decades. A complete classification of bent functions is elusive and looks hopeless today, therefore, not only their characterization, but also their generation are challenging problems. This paper is devoted to the construction of bent functions. First, we provide several new effective constructions of bent functions, self-dual bent functions, and antiself-dual bent functions. Second, we provide seven new infinite families of bent functions by explicitly calculating their dual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We show that any Boolean function, in even dimension, equal to the sum of a Boolean function g which is constant on each element of a spread and of a Boolean function h whose restrictions to these elements are all linear, is semibent if and only if g and h are both bent. We deduce a large number of infinite classes of semibent functions in explicit bivariate (respectively, univariate) polynomial form. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper consists of two main contributions. First, the Niho bent function consisting of 2^r exponents (discovered by Leander and Kholosha) is studied. The dual of the function is found and it is shown that this new bent function is not of the Niho type. Second, all known univariate representations of Niho bent functions are analyzed for their relation to the completed Maiorana–McFarland class \cal M. In particular, it is proven that two families do not belong to the completed class \cal M. The latter result gives a positive answer to an open problem whether the class H of bent functions introduced by Dillon in his thesis of 1974 differs from the completed class \cal M. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]