Cross-Correlation Distribution of $p$-ary $m$-Sequence of Period $p^{4k}-1$ and Its Decimated Sequences by $\left({{ p^{2k}+1}\over { 2}}\right)^{2}$

Abstract

For an odd prime p, n=4k, and d=((p <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2k</sup> +1)/2) <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> , there are (p <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2k</sup> +1)/2 distinct decimated sequences s(dt+l), 0lesl<(p <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2k</sup> +)/2,of a p-ary m-sequence s(t) of period p <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">n</sup> -1 because gcd(d,p <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">n</sup> -1)=(p <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2k</sup> +1)/2. In this paper, it is shown that the cross-correlation function between s(t) and s(dt+l),0lesl<(p <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2k</sup> +1)/2, takes the values in {-1, -1 -radic(p <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">n</sup> ),-1+radic(p <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">n</sup> ),-1+2radic(p <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">n</sup> )} and their cross-correlation distribution is also derived.