%0 Journal Article %T Differential uniformity and second order derivatives for generic polynomials %+ Institut de Mathématiques de Toulon - EA 2134 (IMATH) %+ Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille (I2M) %+ Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) %+ École supérieure du professorat et de l'éducation - Académie de Nice (ESPE Nice) %A Aubry, Yves %A Herbaut, Fabien %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0022-4049 %J Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra %I Elsevier %V 222 %N 5 %P 1095-1110 %8 2018-05 %D 2018 %Z 1703.07299 %R 10.1016/j.jpaa.2017.06.009 %K Differential uniformity %K Galois closure of a map %K Chebotarev density theorem. %Z Mathematics [math]/Algebraic Geometry [math.AG] %Z Mathematics [math]/Number Theory [math.NT] %Z Mathematics [math]/Information Theory [math.IT]Journal articles %X For any polynomial $f$ of ${\mathbb F}_{2^n}[x]$ we introduce the following characteristic of the distribution of its second order derivative,which extends the differential uniformity notion:$$\delta^2(f):=\max_{\substack{\alpha \in {\mathbb F}_{2^n}^{\ast} ,\alpha' \in {\mathbb F}_{2^n}^{\ast} ,\beta \in {\mathbb F}_{2^n} \\\alpha\not=\alpha'}} \sharp\{x\in{\mathbb F}_{2^n} \mid D_{\alpha,\alpha'}^2f(x)=\beta\}$$where $D_{\alpha,\alpha'}^2f(x):=D_{\alpha'}(D_{\alpha}f(x))=f(x)+f(x+\alpha)+f(x+\alpha')+f(x+\alpha+\alpha')$ is the second order derivative.Our purpose is to prove a density theorem relative to this quantity,which is an analogue of a density theorem proved by Voloch for the differential uniformity. %G English %2 https://hal.science/hal-01266567/document %2 https://hal.science/hal-01266567/file/Aubry_Herbaut_170320.pdf %L hal-01266567 %U https://hal.science/hal-01266567 %~ UNICE %~ UNIV-TLN %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-AMU %~ EC-MARSEILLE %~ INSMI %~ I2M %~ I2M-2014- %~ IMATH %~ UNIV-COTEDAZUR %~ TEST-HALCNRS