Known infinite families of APN power functions over GF(2^n)

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The following table provides a summary of all known infinite families of power APN functions of the form <math>F(x) = x^d</math>.

Family Exponent Conditions <math>\deg(x^d)</math> Reference
Gold <math>2^i + 1</math> <math>\gcd(i,n) = 1</math> 2 [1][2]
Kasami <math>2^{2i} - 2^i + 1</math> <math>\gcd(i,n) = 1</math> <math>i + 1</math> [3][4]
Welch <math>2^t + 3</math> <math>n = 2t + 1</math> <math>3</math> [5]
Niho <math>2^t + 2^{t/2} - 1, t</math> even <math>n = 2t + 1</math> <math>(t+2)/2</math> [6]
<math>2^t + 2^{(3t+1)/2} - 1, t</math> odd <math>t + 1</math>
Inverse <math>2^{2t} - 1</math> <math>n = 2t + 1</math> <math>n-1</math> [2]Beth T, Ding C. On almost perfect nonlinear permutations. InWorkshop on the Theory and Application of of Cryptographic Techniques 1993 May 23 (pp. 65-76). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.</ref>
Dobbertin <math>2^{4i} + 2^{3i} + 2^{2i} + 2^i - 1</math> <math>n = 5i</math> <math>i + 3</math> [7]
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  2. 2.0 2.1 Nyberg K. Differentially uniform mappings for cryptography. InWorkshop on the Theory and Application of of Cryptographic Techniques 1993 May 23 (pp. 55-64). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  3. Janwa H, Wilson RM. Hyperplane sections of Fermat varieties in P 3 in char. 2 and some applications to cyclic codes. InInternational Symposium on Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms, and Error-Correcting Codes 1993 May 10 (pp. 180-194). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  4. Kasami T. The weight enumerators for several classes of subcodes of the 2nd order binary Reed-Muller codes. Information and Control. 1971 May 1;18(4):369-94.
  5. Dobbertin H. Almost perfect nonlinear power functions on <math>GF(2^n)</math>: the Welch case. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 1999 May;45(4):1271-5.
  6. Dobbertin H. Almost perfect nonlinear power functions on <math>GF(2^n)</math>: the Niho case. Information and Computation. 1999 May 25;151(1-2):57-72.
  7. Dobbertin H. Almost perfect nonlinear power functions on <math>GF(2^n)</math>: a new case for n divisible by 5. InFinite Fields and Applications 2001 (pp. 113-121). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.