Almost All Vectorial Functions Have Trivial Extended-Affine Stabilizers
Abstract
We prove that asymptotically almost all vectorial functions over finite fields have trivial extended-affine stabilizers. As a consequence, the number of EA-equivalence classes is asymptotically equal to the naive estimate, namely the total number of functions divided by the size of the EA-group, with vanishing relative error. Furthermore, we derive upper bounds on collision probabilities for both extended-affine and CCZ equivalences. For EA-equivalence, we leverage the trivial-stabilizer result to establish a matching lower bound, yielding a tight asymptotic formula that shows two independently sampled functions are EA-equivalent with super-exponentially small probability. The results validate random sampling strategies for cryptographic primitive design and show that functions with nontrivial EA-stabilizers form an exponentially rare subset.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Coding theory and cryptography
Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
Publication details
- Journal / source
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Publication date
- 6 February 2026
- Document type
- Preprint