APN 3-design conjecture for two quartic-dependent exponents

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Let q=2nq=2^n, with n≥5n\geq5 odd, and let BsB_s be the associated base block. Two-exponent APN 3-design conjecture. The incidence structure

APn,s=(GF⁡(q),GA⁡1(q)(Bs))\mathbb{AP}_{n,s}=\left(\operatorname{GF}(q),\operatorname{GA}_1(q)(B_s)\right)

is a 33-(q,q2,q(q−4)8)\left(q,\frac q2,\frac{q(q-4)}8\right) design in either of the following cases: s=2(n−1)/2+2(n−1)/4−1s=2^{(n-1)/2}+2^{(n-1)/4}-1 when n≡1(mod4)n\equiv1\pmod4, or s=2(n−1)/2+2(3n−1)/4−1s=2^{(n-1)/2}+2^{(3n-1)/4}-1 when n≡3(mod4)n\equiv3\pmod4. These cases were included among conjectures computationally confirmed for n∈{5,7}n\in\{5,7\}; the general statement remains open.

References

Primary source

Chunming Tang, “Infinite families of 3-designs from APN functions”, arXiv:1904.04071 (2019).

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