Bent Functions, Partial Difference Sets, and Quasi-Frobenius Local Rings

Bent functions andpartial difference sets have been constructed from finite principalideal local rings. In this paper, the constructions are generalizedto finite quasi-Frobenius local rings. Let R bea finite quasi-Frobenius local ring with maximal ideal M.Bent functions and certain partial difference sets on M } M are extended to R } R.