Boolean functions form the backbone of modern cryptographic systems, serving as essential components in the design of stream ciphers, block ciphers, and other security protocols. Their inherent ...

Abstract We introduce the class of everywhere like functions, which helps us to recover some known classes (such as that of everywhere surjective ones). We also study the algebraic genericity of this ...

A range of basic mathematical concepts and methods in calculus of one and several variables and in linear algebra are covered and some applications illustrated. It is an essential pre-requisite for ...

Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, Walks in the Quarter Plane: Kreweras' Algebraic Model, The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 15, No. 2 (May, 2005), pp. 1451-1491 ...