Bent functions are maximally nonlinear Boolean functions and exist only for functions with even number of inputs. This paper is a contribution to the construction of bent functions over mathbbF2n{mathbb{F}_{2^{n}}} (n = 2m) having the form f(x) = tro(s1) (a xs1) + tro(s2) (b xs2){f(x) = tr_{o(s_1)} (a x^ {s_1}) + tr_{o(s_2)} (b x^{s_2})} where o(s i ) denotes the cardinality of the cyclotomic class of 2 modulo 2 n − 1 which contains s i and whose coefficients a and b are, respectively in F2o(s1){F_{2^{o(s_1)}}} and F2o(s2){F_{2^{o(s_2)}}}. Many constructions of monomial bent functions are presented in the literature but very few are known even in the binomial case. We prove that the exponents s 1 = 2 m − 1 and s2=frac 2n-13{s_2={frac {2^n-1}3}}, where a Î mathbbF2n{ainmathbb{F}_{2^{n}}} (a ≠ 0) and b Î mathbbF4{binmathbb{F}_{4}} provide a construction of bent functions over mathbbF2n{mathbb{F}_{2^{n}}} with optimum algebraic degree. For m odd, we give an explicit characterization of the bentness of these functions, in terms of the Kloosterman sums. We generalize the result for functions whose exponent s 1 is of the form r(2 m − 1) where r is co-prime with 2 m + 1. The corresponding bent functions are also hyper-bent. For m even, we give a necessary condition of bentness in terms of these Kloosterman sums.
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