Kloosterman-Like Sums with Moebius Inversion
Speaker: Faruk Goeloglu
Time: 4:00PM
Date: Mon 25th January 2010
Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room
Abstract
We give divisibility results on Kloosterman-like sums using Numerical Normal Form (NNF). A Kloosterman sum Kn(a) is an exponential sum related to the Walsh transform Wf(a) of the inverse function f=x−1 on GF(2n), which is of degree n−1. Helleseth and Zinoviev proved that Kn(a) is divisible by 8 if and only if a is in Trace-0-hyperplane. We can use the NNF, a Moebius inversion of a Boolean function, to give a purely combinatorial proof that any Boolean function f with degree n−1 satisfies Wf(a) is divisible by 8 if and only if a is in some fixed hyperplane.
(This talk is part of the Algebra/Claude Shannon Institute series.)
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