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Counting rotation symmetric functions using Polya’s theorem

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : Discrete Applied Mathematics

Source : Discrete Applied Mathematics, Volume 169, p.162 - 167 (2014)

Url : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166218X13005891

Keywords : Polya’s enumeration theorem

Campus : Coimbatore

School : School of Engineering

Center : TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security

Department : Computer Science, cyber Security, Mathematics

Year : 2014

Abstract : Homogeneous rotation symmetric (invariant under cyclic permutation of the variables) Boolean functions have been extensively studied in recent years due to their applications in cryptography. In this paper we give an explicit formula for the number of homogeneous rotation symmetric functions over the finite field G F ( p m ) using Polya’s enumeration theorem, which completely solves the open problem proposed by Yuan Li in 2008 . This result simplifies the proof and the nonexplicit counting formula given by Shaojing Fu et al. over the field G F ( p ) . This paper also gives an explicit count for n -variable balanced rotation symmetric Boolean functions with n = p q , where p and q are distinct primes. Previous work only gave an explicit count for the case where n is prime and lower bounds for the case where n is a prime power.

Cite this Research Publication : L. K.V., Dr. M. Sethumadhavan, and Cusick, T. W., “Counting rotation symmetric functions using Polya’s theorem”, Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 169, pp. 162 - 167, 2014.

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