Generalized $p$-ary $\cPS$ Bent Functions

Abstract

We use $m$-dimensional partial spreads of $\fp^{2n}$, where $p$ is an odd prime, $n$ is a positive integer and $m$ divides $n$, to construct two classes of bent functions from $\fp^{2n}$ to $\fp$. Our construction generalizes the classes of $p$-ary $\cPS^{-}$ and $\cPS^{+}$ bent functions proposed by P. Lison\v ek and H. Y. Lu (Des. Codes Cryptogr. 73 (2014), 209--216).