On the bijectivity of the map $\chi$

Anna-Maurin Graner; Björn Kriepke; Lucas Krompholz; Gohar M. Kyureghyan

Paper 2024/187 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2024/187 ↗

On the bijectivity of the map $\chi$

Anna-Maurin Graner

Björn Kriepke

Lucas Krompholz

Gohar M. Kyureghyan

Abstract

We prove that for $n>1$ the map $\chi:\mathbb{F}_q^n \to \mathbb{F}_q^n$, defined by $y=\chi(x)$ with $y_i = x_i + x_{i+2}\cdot(1+x_{i+1})$ for $1\leq i \leq n$, is bijective if and only if $q=2$ and $n$ is odd, as it was conjectured by Schoone and Daemen in 2023.

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Available format(s): PDF
Category: Foundations
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2024-02-07: last updated; 2024-02-07: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2024/187
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/187,
      author = {Anna-Maurin Graner and Björn Kriepke and Lucas Krompholz and Gohar M. Kyureghyan},
      title = {On the bijectivity of the map $\chi$},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/187},
      year = {2024},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/187}
}