On the normality of $p$-ary bent functions

Wilfried Meidl, Ísabel Piršić

Depending on the parity of $n$ and the regularity of a bent function $f$ from ${\mathbb{F}}_p^n$ to ${\mathbb{F}}_p$, $f$ can be affine on a subspace of dimension at most $n/2$, $(n-1)/2…