Commutative Presemifields and Semifields

Background

For a prime Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p} and a positive integer $n$ let Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^n}} be the finite field with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p^n} elements. Let Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} be a map from the finite field to itself. Such function admits a unique representation as a polynomial of degree at most $p^{n}-1$, i.e.

$F(x)=\sum _{j=0}^{p^{n}-1}a_{j}x^{j},a_{j}\in \mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$.

The function $F$ is

• linear if $F(x)=\sum _{j=0}^{n-1}a_{j}x^{p^{j}}$,
• affine if it is the sum of a linear function and a constant,
• DO (Dembowski-Ostrim) polynomial if $F(x)=\sum _{0\leq i\leq j<n}a_{ij}x^{p^{i}+p^{j}}$,
• quadratic if it is the sum of a DO polynomial and an affine function.

For $\delta$ a positive integer, the function $F$ is called differentially $\delta$-uniform if for any pairs $a,b\in \mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$, with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a\ne0} , the equation Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F(x+a)-F(x)=b} admits at most Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \delta} solutions.

A function Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} is called planar or perfect nonlinear (PN) if Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \delta_F=1} . Obviously such functions exist only for Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p} an odd prime. In the even case the smallest possible case for $\delta$ is two (APN function).

For planar function we have that the all the nonzero derivatives, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle D_aF(x)=F(x+a)-F(x)} , are permutations.

Equivalence Relations

Two functions Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F'} from Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^n}} to itself are called:

• affine equivalent if Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F'=A_1\circ F\circ A_2} , where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle A_1,A_2} are affine permutations;
• EA-equivalent (extended-affine) if $F'=F''+A$, where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle A} is affine and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F''} is afffine equivalent to Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} ;
• CCZ-equivalent if there exists an affine permutation Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathcal{L}} of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^n}\times\mathbb{F}_{p^n}} such that ${\mathcal {L}}(G_{F})=G_{F'}$, where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle G_F=\lbrace (x,F(x)) : x\in\mathbb{F}_{p^n}\rbrace} .

CCZ-equivalence is the most general known equivalence relation for functions which preserves differential uniformity. Affine and EA-equivalence are its particular cases. For the case of quadratic planar functions the isotopic equivalence is more general than CCZ-equivalence, where two maps are isotopic equivalent if the corresponding presemifields are isotopic.

On Presemifields and Semifields

A presemifield is a ring with left and right distributivity and with no zero divisor. A presemifield with a multiplicative identity is called a semifield. Any finite presemifield can be represented by Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}=(\mathbb{F}_{p^n},+,\star)} , for Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p} a prime, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n} a positive integer, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}=(\mathbb{F}_{p^n},+)} additive group and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x\star y} multiplication linear in each variable. Every commutative presemifield can be transformed into a commutative semifield.

Two presemifields Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}_1=(\mathbb{F}_{p^n},+,\star)} and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}_2=(\mathbb{F}_{p^n},+,\circ)} are called isotopic if there exist three linear permutations Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T,M,N} of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^n}} such that Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T(x\star y)=M(x)\circ N(y)} , for any $x,y\in \mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$. If Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle M=N} then they are called strongly isotopic. Each commutative presemifields of odd order defines a planar DO polynomial and viceversa:

• given Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}=(\mathbb{F}_{p^n},+,\star)} let Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F_\mathbb{S}(x)=\frac{1}{2}(x\star x)} ;
• given Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} let $\mathbb {S} _{F}=(\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}},+,\star )$ defined by $x\star y=F(x+y)-F(x)-F(y)$.

Given $\mathbb {S} =(\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}},+,\star )$ a finite semifield, the subsets

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N_l(\mathbb{S})=\{\alpha\in\mathbb{S} : (\alpha\star x)\star y=\alpha\star(x\star y)} for all Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x,y\in\mathbb{S}\}}

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N_m(\mathbb{S})=\{\alpha\in\mathbb{S} : (x\star\alpha)\star y=x\star(\alpha\star y)} for all Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x,y\in\mathbb{S}\}}

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N_r(\mathbb{S})=\{\alpha\in\mathbb{S} : (x\star y)\star \alpha=x\star(y\star \alpha)} for all Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x,y\in\mathbb{S}\}}

are called left, middle and right nucleus of $\mathbb {S}$.

The set Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N(\mathbb{S})=N_l(\mathbb{S})\cap N_m(\mathbb{S})\cap N_r(\mathbb{S})} is called the nucleus. All these sets are finite field and, when Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}} is commutative, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N_l(\mathbb{S})=N_r(\mathbb{S})\subseteq N_m(\mathbb{S})} . The order of the different nuclei are invariant under isotopism.

Properties

Hence two quadratic planar functions Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F,F'} are isotopic equivalent if their corresponding presemifields are isotopic. Moreover, we have:

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F,F'} are CCZ-equivalent if and only if the corresponding presemifileds are strongly isotopic;
• for $n$ odd, isotopic coincides with strongly isotopic;
• if Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F,F'} are isotopic equivalent, then there exists a linear map Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle L} such that Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F'} is EA-equivalent to Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F(x+L(x))-F(x)-F(L(x))} ;
• any commutative presemifield of odd order can generate at most two CCZ-equivalence classes of planar DO polynomials;
• if Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}_1} and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{S}_2} are isotopic commutative semifields of characteristic $p$ with order of middle nuclei and nuclei Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p^m} and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p^k} respectively, then either one of the following is satisfied:
  • Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle m/k} is odd and the semifields are strongly isotopic,
  • Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle m/k} is even and the semifields are strongly isotopic or the only isotopisms are of the form Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (\alpha\star N,N,L)} with $\alpha \in N_{m}(\mathbb {S} _{1})$ non-square.

Known cases of planar functions and commutative semifields

Among the known example of planar functions, the only ones that are non-quadratic are the power functions Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{\frac{3^t+1}{2}}} defined over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{3^n}} , with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle t} is odd and gcd($t,n$)=1.

In the following the list of some known infinite families of planar functions (and corresponding commutative semifields):

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^2} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^n}} (finite field Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^n}} );
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{p^t+1}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^n}} with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n/gcd(t,n)} odd (Albert's commutative twisted fields);
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle L(t^2(x))+\frac{1}{2}x^2} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^{2km}}} with $L(x)={\frac {1}{8}}(x^{p^{k}}-x),t(x)=x^{p^{km}}-x$ (Dickson semifields);
• • Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (ax)^{p^s+1}-(ax)^{p^k(p^s+1)}+x^{p^k+1}}
  • $bx^{p^{s}+1}+(bx^{p^{s}+1})^{p^{k}}+cx^{p^{k}+1}$

over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^{2k}}} where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a,b\in\mathbb{F}^\star_{2^{2k}}, b} not square, $c\in \mathbb {F} _{2^{2k}}\setminus \mathbb {F} _{2^{k}},gcd(k+s,2k)=gcd(k+s,k)$ and for the first one also $gcd(p^{s}+1,p^{k}+1)\neq gcd(p^{s}+1,(p^{k}+1)/2)$. Without loss of generality it is possible to take $a=1$ and fix a value for Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle c} ;

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{p^s+1}-a^{p^t-1}x^{p^t+p^{2t+s}}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^{3t}}, a} primitive, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle gcd(3,t)=1, t-s\equiv0} mod Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 3, 3t/gcd(s,3t)} odd;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{p^s+1}-a^{p^t-1}x^{p^{3t}+p^{t+s}}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^{4t}}, a} primitive, $p^{s}\equiv p^{t}\equiv 1$ mod 4, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2t/gcd(s,2t)} odd;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a^{1-p}x^2+x^{2p^m}+a^{1-p}T(x)-T(x)^{p^m}} , with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T(x)=\sum_{i=0}^k(-1)^ix^{p^{2i}(p^2+1)}+a^{p-1}\sum_{j=0}^{k-1}(-1)^{k+j}x^{p^{2j+1}(p^2+1)}} , over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^{2m}}} for Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a\in\mathbb{F}^\star_{p^2}, m=2k+1} .

Cases defined for p=3

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{10}\pm x^6-x^2 \mbox{ over } \mathbb{F}_{p^n} \mbox{ with } n} odd (Coulter-Matthews and Ding-Yuan semifields);
• $L(t^{2}(x))+D(t(x))+{\frac {1}{2}}x^{2},{\mbox{ over }}\mathbb {F} _{3^{2k}}{\mbox{ with }}k{\mbox{ odd, }}t(x)=x^{3^{k}}-x,\beta \in \mathbb {F} _{3^{2k}}\setminus \mathbb {F} _{3^{k}},\alpha =t(\beta ),L(x)=\alpha ^{-5}x^{3}+x,D(x)=-\alpha ^{-10}x^{10}$ (Ganley semifields);
• $L(t^{2}(x))+{\frac {1}{2}}x^{2},{\mbox{ over }}\mathbb {F} _{3^{2k}}{\mbox{ with }}k{\mbox{ odd, }}t(x)=x^{3^{k}}-x,\beta \in \mathbb {F} _{3^{2k}}\setminus \mathbb {F} _{3^{k}},\alpha =t(\beta ),L(x)=-x^{9}-\alpha x^{3}+(1-\alpha ^{4})x$ (Cohen-Ganley semifileds);
• $L(t^{2}(x))+{\frac {1}{2}}x^{2},{\mbox{ over }}\mathbb {F} _{3^{10}}{\mbox{ with }}t(x)=x^{243}-x,\beta \in \mathbb {F} _{3^{10}}\setminus \mathbb {F} _{3^{5}},\alpha =t(\beta ),L(x)=-(\alpha ^{-53}x^{27}+\alpha ^{-18}x^{9}-x)$ (Penttila-Williams semifileds);
• $L(t^{2}(x))+D(t(x))+{\frac {1}{2}}x^{2},{\mbox{ over }}\mathbb {F} _{3^{8}}{\mbox{ with }}t(x)=x^{9}-x,L(x)=x^{243}+x^{9},D(x)=x^{246}+x^{82}-x^{10}$ (Coulter-Henderson-Kosick semifield);
• $x^{2}+x^{90}{\mbox{ over }}\mathbb {F} _{3^{5}}$.

Known cases of APN functions in odd characteristic

• $x^{3}$ over $\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$, $p\neq 3$;
• $x^{p^{n}-2}$ over $\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$ with $p^{n}\equiv 2{\pmod {3}}$;
• $x^{\frac {p^{n}-3}{2}}$ over $\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$ with $p^{n}\equiv 3,7{\pmod {20}},~p^{n}>7,~p^{n}\neq 27,n$ odd;
• $x^{{\frac {p^{n}+1}{4}}+{\frac {p^{n}-1}{2}}}$ over $\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$ with $p^{n}\equiv 3{\pmod {8}}$;
• $x^{\frac {p^{n}+1}{4}}$ over $\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$ with $p^{n}\equiv 7{\pmod {8}},~n>1$;
• $x^{\frac {2p^{n}-1}{3}}$ over $\mathbb {F} _{p^{n}}$ with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p^n \equiv 2 \pmod 3 } ;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{p^m+2}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{p^n}} with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p^m \equiv 1 \pmod 3,~ n=2m } ;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{3^n-3}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{3^n}} with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n>1} odd;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{\frac{3^\frac{n+1}{2}-1}{2}}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{3^n}} with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n \equiv 3 \pmod 4,~ n>3} ;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{\frac{3^\frac{n+1}{2}-1}{2}+\frac{3^n-1}{2}}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{3^n}} with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n \equiv 1 \pmod 4,~ n>1} ;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{\frac{3^{n+1}-1}{8}}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{3^n}} with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n \equiv 3 \pmod 4 } ;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{\frac{3^{n+1}-1}{8}+\frac{3^{n}-1}{4}}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{3^n}} with $n\equiv 1{\pmod {4}}$;
• $x^{\frac {3^{n+1}-1}{3^{L}+1}}$ over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{3^n}} , where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle L={\frac{n+1}{2^{\ell}}} } with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n \equiv -1 \pmod {2^\ell} } ;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{\frac{5^\ell+1}{2}}} over $\mathbb {F} _{5^{n}}$ with $\gcd(2n,\ell )=1$;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{\frac{5^n-1}{4}+ \frac{5^{\frac{n+1}{2}}-1}{2}}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{5^n}} with Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n } odd;
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{\frac{5^{n+1}-1}{2(5^L+1)}+ \frac{5^n-1}{4}}} over Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{F}_{5^n}} , where $L={\frac {n+1}{2^{\ell }}},~n\equiv -1{\pmod {2^{\ell }}}$ and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \ell \geq 2 } ;