Accession Number:

ADA604853

Title:

The Eigenfunction of the Reed-Muller Transformation

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Sasao, T.
• Bulter, J. T.

Report Date:

2007-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

0.0

Abstract:

We introduce eigenfunctions of the Reed-Muller transform. Eigenfunctions are functions whose canonical sumof- products expression and PPRM positive polarity Reed- Muller expression are isomorphic. In the case of symmetric functions, the eigenfunction can be viewed as a function whose reduced truth vector is identical to the reduced Reed- Muller spectrum. We show that the number of symmetric ordinary eigenfunctions on n-variables is 2 n1 divided by 2 2 2n-1. We identify three special symmetric functions that correspond to the most complicated minimal fixed polarity Reed- Muller FPRM form. We show how the transeunt triangle can be used to convert between the reduced ordinary truth vector and the reduced ordinary Reed-Muller spectrum. We derive the number of products in the FPRM for these symmetric functions this shows that they have the most complicated minimal FPRM among all n-variable functions.

Descriptors:

• *EIGENVECTORS
• FUNCTIONS
• REDUCTION
• SPECIAL FUNCTIONS(MATHEMATICS)
• SPECTRA
• SYMMETRY
• TRANSFORMATIONS
• TRIANGLES
• VECTOR ANALYSIS

Subject Categories:

• Theoretical Mathematics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE