Commutative Presemifields and Semifields

Background

For a prime $p$ and a positive integer $n$ let $\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$ be the finite field with $p^{n}$ elements. Let $F$ be a map from the finite field to itself. Such function admits a unique representation as a polynomial of degree at most $p^{n}-1$, i.e.

$F(x)=\sum _{j=0}^{p^{n}-1}a_{j}x^{j},a_{j}\in \mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$.

The function $F$ is

• linear if $F(x)=\sum _{j=0}^{n-1}a_{j}x^{p^{j}}$,
• affine if it is the sum of a linear function and a constant,
• DO (Dembowski-Ostrim) polynomial if $F(x)=\sum _{0\leq i\leq j<n}a_{ij}x^{p^{i}+p^{j}}$,
• quadratic if it is the sum of a DO polynomial and an affine function.

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A function Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} is called planar or perfect nonlinear (PN) if $\delta _{F}=1$. Obviously such functions exist only for Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p} an odd prime. In the even case the smallest possible case for Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \delta} is two (APN function).

For planar function we have that the all the nonzero derivatives, Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle D_aF(x)=F(x+a)-F(x)} , are permutations.

Equivalence Relations

Two functions Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} and $F'$ from Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^n}} to itself are called:

• affine equivalent if Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F'=A_1\circ F\circ A_2} , where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle A_1,A_2} are affine permutations;
• EA-equivalent (extended-affine) if $F'=F''+A$, where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle A} is affine and $F''$ is afffine equivalent to Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} ;
• CCZ-equivalent if there exists an affine permutation Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathcal{L}} of $\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}\times \mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$ such that Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathcal{L}(G_F)=G_{F'}} , where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle G_F=\lbrace (x,F(x)) : x\in\mathbb{F}_{p^n}\rbrace} .

CCZ-equivalence is the most general known equivalence relation for functions which preserves differential uniformity. Affine and EA-equivalence are its particular cases. For the case of quadratic planar functions the isotopic equivalence is more general than CCZ-equivalence, where two maps are isotopic equivalent if the corresponding presemifields are isotopic.

On Presemifields and Semifields

A presemifield is a ring with left and right distributivity and with no zero divisor. A presemifield with a multiplicative identity is called a semifield. Any finite presemifield can be represented by Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}=(\mathbb{F}_{p^n},+,\star)} , for Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p} a prime, Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n} a positive integer, Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}=(\mathbb{F}_{p^n},+)} additive group and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x\star y} multiplication linear in each variable. Every commutative presemifield can be transformed into a commutative semifield.

Two presemifields Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}_1=(\mathbb{F}_{p^n},+,\star)} and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}_2=(\mathbb{F}_{p^n},+,\circ)} are called isotopic if there exist three linear permutations Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T,M,N} of Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^n}} such that Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T(x\star y)=M(x)\circ N(y)} , for any Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x,y\in\mathbb{F}_{p^n}} . If Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle M=N} then they are called strongly isotopic. Each commutative presemifields of odd order defines a planar DO polynomial and viceversa:

• given Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}=(\mathbb{F}_{p^n},+,\star)} let Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F_\mathbb{S}(x)=\frac{1}{2}(x\star x)} ;
• given Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} let $\mathbb {S} _{F}=(\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}},+,\star )$ defined by $x\star y=F(x+y)-F(x)-F(y)$.

Given $\mathbb {S} =(\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}},+,\star )$ a finite semifield, the subsets

$N_{l}(\mathbb {S} )=\{\alpha \in \mathbb {S} :(\alpha \star x)\star y=\alpha \star (x\star y)$ for all $x,y\in \mathbb {S} \}$

$N_{m}(\mathbb {S} )=\{\alpha \in \mathbb {S} :(x\star \alpha )\star y=x\star (\alpha \star y)$ for all $x,y\in \mathbb {S} \}$

$N_{r}(\mathbb {S} )=\{\alpha \in \mathbb {S} :(x\star y)\star \alpha =x\star (y\star \alpha )$ for all $x,y\in \mathbb {S} \}$

are called left, middle and right nucleus of $\mathbb {S}$.

The set $N(\mathbb {S} )=N_{l}(\mathbb {S} )\cap N_{m}(\mathbb {S} )\cap N_{r}(\mathbb {S} )$ is called the nucleus. All these sets are finite field and, when $\mathbb {S}$ is commutative, $N_{l}(\mathbb {S} )=N_{r}(\mathbb {S} )\subseteq N_{m}(\mathbb {S} )$. The order of the different nuclei are invariant under isotopism.

Properties

Hence two quadratic planar functions $F,F'$ are isotopic equivalent if their corresponding presemifields are isotopic. Moreover, we have:

• $F,F'$ are CCZ-equivalent if and only if $\mathbb {S} _{F},\mathbb {S} _{F'}$ are strongly isotopic;
• for $n$ odd, isotopic coincides with strongly isotopic;
• if $F,F'$ are isotopic equivalent, then there exists a linear map $L$ such that $F'$ is EA-equivalent to $F(x+L(x))-F(x)-F(L(x))$;
• any commutative presemifield of odd order can generate at most two CCZ-equivalence classes of planar DO polynomials;
• if $\mathbb {S} _{1}$ and $\mathbb {S} _{2}$ are isotopic commutative semifields of characteristic $p$ with order of middle nuclei and nuclei $p^{m}$ and $p^{k}$ respectively, then either one of the following is satisfied:
  • $m/k$ is odd and the semifields are strongly isotopic,
  • $m/k$ is even and the semifields are strongly isotopic or the only isotopisms are of the form $(\alpha \star N,N,L)$ with $\alpha \in N_{m}(\mathbb {S} _{1})$ non-square.