Asymptotic bounds on the numbers of certain bent functions

Official URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12095-024-00726-x

Using recent results of Keevash et al. [10] and Eberhard et al. [8] together with further new detailed techniques in combinatorics, we present constructions of two concrete families of generalized Maiorana-McFarland bent functions. Our constructions improve the lower bounds on the number of bent functions in n variables over a finite field Fp if p is odd and n is odd in the limit as n tends to infinity. Moreover we obtain the asymptotically exact number of two dimensional vectorial Maiorana-McFarland bent functions in n variables over F2 as n tends to infinity.