This paper studies cycles that appear by repeatedly applying the RM transform to a p-valued function. It is shown that there are nontrivial fixed points, which correspond to eigenvectors of the transform and a simple method is proposed to determine the maximum period of n-place functions for a given p. The concept of spectral diversity is introduced, which may be applied to characterize p-valued functions.
Index Terms:
Eigenvectors, Reed Muller transform, cycles, spectral diversity
Citation:
Claudio Moraga, Suzana Stojkovic, Radomir Stankovic, "On Fixed Points and Cycles in the Reed Muller Domain," ismvl, pp.82-87, 38th International Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic (ismvl 2008), 2008