Four decades of research on bent functions

• DOI: 10.1007/s10623-015-0145-8
• Publication Date: 2015-12-26T08:14:54Z
• Authors: Claude Carlet; Sihem Mesnager
• Keywords: Bent function

In this survey, we revisit the Rothaus paper and the chapter of Dillon's thesis dedicated to bent functions, and we describe the main results obtained on these functions during these last 40 years. We also cover more briefly super-classes of Boolean functions, vectorial bent functions and bent functions in odd characteristic.