Bent Partitions and LP-Packings

Recently, the concept of (normal) bent partitions, which are partitions of elementary abelian groups having similar properties to spreads, has been introduced by Anbar and Meidl. A large number of bent partitions, so-called generalized semifield spreads, can be obtained from semifields with certain...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on information theory Vol. 70; no. 7; pp. 5365 - 5375
Main Authors: Alkan, Sezel, Anbar, Nurdagul, Kalayci, Tekgul, Meidl, Wilfried
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.07.2024
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Additives
Bent functions
bent partitions
Cryptography
Finite element analysis
Galois fields
generalized semifield spreads
Group theory
Information theory
partial difference set packings
partial difference sets
Transforms
ISSN:0018-9448, 1557-9654
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Summary:Recently, the concept of (normal) bent partitions, which are partitions of elementary abelian groups having similar properties to spreads, has been introduced by Anbar and Meidl. A large number of bent partitions, so-called generalized semifield spreads, can be obtained from semifields with certain properties. A strongly related concept, namely Latin square partial difference set packings (LP-packings) in finite abelian groups, has also been introduced recently by Jedwab and Li. The examples for LP-packings in an elementary abelian group are obtained from spreads. LP-packings yield bent partitions (not only for elementary abelian groups). In this paper, we first point out that conversely, generalized semifield spreads yield LP-packings. As a result, there is a huge amount of LP-packings in elementary abelian groups, other than spreads. With some examples from ternary bent functions, we then show that normal bent partitions and LP-packings are not the same concept. Finally, we extend the lifting procedure from spreads to LP-packings in nonelementary abelian groups to a lifting procedure from some generalized spreads to LP-packings in nonelementary abelian groups and in larger elementary abelian groups. This potentially yields bent partitions other than generalized semifield spreads.
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ISSN:0018-9448
1557-9654
DOI:10.1109/TIT.2024.3359260