Supported bythe National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.19931010(国家自然科学基金);the NationalGrand Fundamental Research 973 Program ofChina under GrantNo.G1999035804(国家重点基础研究发展规划(973))
On the Number of 5-Variable Best Boolean Functions
The n-variable and m-resilient (m>n/2-2) Boolean functions achieving both the upper bound on nonlinearity2n-1-2m+1and the upper bound on algebraic degree n-m-1 must have three valued Walsh spectra: 0,±2m+2,which are called saturated best (SB in short). Using the known results of weight distributions of the cosets of the (32,6) Reed-Muller code and a new construction method for SB functions gives the number of the 5-variable SB functions.