Walsh's conjecture on weakly regular bent functions and weighted partial difference sets

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Let p>2p>2 and let f:GF(p)n→GF(p)f:GF(p)^n\to GF(p) be a weakly regular bent function corresponding to a weighted strongly regular graph via the stated analogy. Let μii\mu_{ii} denote the diagonal intersection number for the associated weighted partial difference set, for 1≤i≤s1\leq i\leq s. Walsh's conjecture. One has

μii=0,1≤i≤s.\mu_{ii}=0,\qquad 1\leq i\leq s.

This predicts a structural restriction on the weighted partial difference set associated with a weakly regular bent function and its weighted strongly regular graph. The supplied text gives no resolution, so the conjecture remains open.

References

Primary source

Charles Celerier, David Joyner, Caroline Melles, David Phillips and Steven Walsh, “Explorations of edge-weighted Cayley graphs and p-ary bent functions”, arXiv:1406.1087 (2014).

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