Search: id:A004491 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A004491 %S A004491 2,8,896,5425430528,99270589265934370305785861242880 %N A004491 Number of bent functions of 2n variables. %C A004491 The old entry with this sequence number was a duplicate of A004483. %D A004491 Berlekamp, Elwyn R. and Welch, Lloyd R., Weight distributions of the cosets of the (32,6) Reed-Muller code, IEEE Trans. Information Theory IT-18 (1972), 203-207. [Not strictly relevant because it deals with the case of five variables. Included for completeness.] %D A004491 J. F. Dillon, Elementary Hadamard Difference Sets, Ph. D. Thesis, Univ. Maryland, 1974. %D A004491 J. F. Dillon, Elementary Hadamard Difference Sets, in Proc. 6th South-Eastern Conf. Combin. Graph Theory Computing (Utilitas Math., Winnipeg, 1975), pp. 237-249. %D A004491 F. J. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane, The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes, Elsevier/North Holland, 1977. [Section 5 of Chap. 14 deals with bent functions. For a(2) see page 418.] %D A004491 Maiorana, James A., A classification of the cosets of the Reed-Muller code R(1,6), Math. Comp. 57 (1991), no. 195, 403-414. [Gives a(3).] %D A004491 B. Preneel, Analysis and design of cryptographic hash functions, Ph. D. thesis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1993. [Confirms a(3).] %D A004491 O. S. Rothaus, On "bent" functions, J. Combinat. Theory, 20A (1976), 300-305. %H A004491 Philippe Langevin, Classification of Boolean Quartics Forms in Eight Variables %H A004491 Meng Qing-shu, Yang Zhang and Cui Jing-song, A novel algorithm enumerating bent functions, (2004). [Also confirms a(3).] %H A004491 N. J. A. Sloane and R. J. Dick, On the Enumeration of Cosets of First-Order Reed-Muller Codes, Proc. IEEE International Conf. Commun., Montreal 1971, IEEE Press, NY, 7 (1971), pp. 36-2 to 36-6. %Y A004491 See A099090 for a normalized version. %Y A004491 Sequence in context: A076985 A120802 A120838 this_sequence A132573 A061591 A103085 %Y A004491 Adjacent sequences: A004488 A004489 A004490 this_sequence A004492 A004493 A004494 %K A004491 nonn,hard,nice %O A004491 0,1 %A A004491 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Sep 23 2008, based on emails from Philippe Langevin, Gregor Leander and Pante Stanica. %E A004491 a(4) found in 2008 by Philippe Langevin and Gregor Leander. Search completed in 0.001 seconds