On the classification of exceptional planar functions over $$\mathbb {F}_{p}$$Fp

We will present many strong partial results towards a classification of exceptional planar/PN monomial functions on finite fields. The techniques we use are the Weil bound, Bézout’s theorem, and Bertini’s theorem.

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