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Especially, if such a \u201cnew\u201d family belongs to the completed Maiorana\u2013McFarland (<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{{\\mathcal {M}}}{{\\mathcal {M}}}}^\\#$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>#<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>) class then there is no proper contribution to the theory of bent functions. In this article, we provide some fundamental results related to the inclusion in <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{{\\mathcal {M}}}{{\\mathcal {M}}}}^\\#$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>#<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> and eventually we obtain many infinite families of bent functions that are provably outside <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{{\\mathcal {M}}}{{\\mathcal {M}}}}^\\#$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>#<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>. The fact that a bent function <jats:italic>f<\/jats:italic> is in\/outside <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{{\\mathcal {M}}}{{\\mathcal {M}}}}^\\#$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>#<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> if and only if its dual is in\/outside <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{{\\mathcal {M}}}{{\\mathcal {M}}}}^\\#$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>#<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> is employed in the so-called 4-decomposition of a bent function on <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${\\mathbb {F}}_2^n$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msubsup>\n                    <mml:mi>F<\/mml:mi>\n                    <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                    <mml:mi>n<\/mml:mi>\n                  <\/mml:msubsup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>, which was originally considered by Canteaut and Charpin (IEEE Trans Inf Theory 49(8):2004\u20132019, 2003) in terms of the second-order derivatives and later reformulated in (Hod\u017ei\u0107 et al. in IEEE Trans Inf Theory 65(11):7554\u20137565, 2019) in terms of the duals of its restrictions to the cosets of an <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$(n-2)$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>(<\/mml:mo>\n                    <mml:mi>n<\/mml:mi>\n                    <mml:mo>-<\/mml:mo>\n                    <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                    <mml:mo>)<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:mrow>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-dimensional subspace <jats:italic>V<\/jats:italic>. For each of the three possible cases of this 4-decomposition of a bent function (all four restrictions being bent, semi-bent, or 5-valued spectra functions), we provide generic methods for designing bent functions provably outside <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{{\\mathcal {M}}}{{\\mathcal {M}}}}^\\#$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>#<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>. For instance, for the elementary case of defining a bent function <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$h(\\textbf{x},y_1,y_2)=f(\\textbf{x}) \\oplus y_1y_2$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mi>h<\/mml:mi>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mo>(<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:mi>x<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mo>,<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:msub>\n                        <mml:mi>y<\/mml:mi>\n                        <mml:mn>1<\/mml:mn>\n                      <\/mml:msub>\n                      <mml:mo>,<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:msub>\n                        <mml:mi>y<\/mml:mi>\n                        <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                      <\/mml:msub>\n                      <mml:mo>)<\/mml:mo>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>=<\/mml:mo>\n                    <mml:mi>f<\/mml:mi>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mo>(<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:mi>x<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mo>)<\/mml:mo>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>\u2295<\/mml:mo>\n                    <mml:msub>\n                      <mml:mi>y<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mn>1<\/mml:mn>\n                    <\/mml:msub>\n                    <mml:msub>\n                      <mml:mi>y<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                    <\/mml:msub>\n                  <\/mml:mrow>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> on <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${\\mathbb {F}}_2^{n+2}$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msubsup>\n                    <mml:mi>F<\/mml:mi>\n                    <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>n<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mo>+<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                  <\/mml:msubsup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> using a bent function <jats:italic>f<\/jats:italic> on <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${\\mathbb {F}}_2^n$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msubsup>\n                    <mml:mi>F<\/mml:mi>\n                    <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                    <mml:mi>n<\/mml:mi>\n                  <\/mml:msubsup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>, we show that <jats:italic>h<\/jats:italic> is outside <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{{\\mathcal {M}}}{{\\mathcal {M}}}}^\\#$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>#<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> if and only if <jats:italic>f<\/jats:italic> is outside <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{{\\mathcal {M}}}{{\\mathcal {M}}}}^\\#$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>#<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>. This approach is then generalized to the case when two bent functions are used. More precisely, the concatenation <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$f_1||f_1||f_2||(1\\oplus f_2)$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:msub>\n                      <mml:mi>f<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mn>1<\/mml:mn>\n                    <\/mml:msub>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mo>|<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:mo>|<\/mml:mo>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:msub>\n                      <mml:mi>f<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mn>1<\/mml:mn>\n                    <\/mml:msub>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mo>|<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:mo>|<\/mml:mo>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:msub>\n                      <mml:mi>f<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                    <\/mml:msub>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mo>|<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:mo>|<\/mml:mo>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mo>(<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:mn>1<\/mml:mn>\n                      <mml:mo>\u2295<\/mml:mo>\n                      <mml:msub>\n                        <mml:mi>f<\/mml:mi>\n                        <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                      <\/mml:msub>\n                      <mml:mo>)<\/mml:mo>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                  <\/mml:mrow>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> also gives bent functions outside <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{{\\mathcal {M}}}{{\\mathcal {M}}}}^\\#$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>#<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> if <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$f_1$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msub>\n                    <mml:mi>f<\/mml:mi>\n                    <mml:mn>1<\/mml:mn>\n                  <\/mml:msub>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> or <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$f_2$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msub>\n                    <mml:mi>f<\/mml:mi>\n                    <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                  <\/mml:msub>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> is outside <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{{\\mathcal {M}}}{{\\mathcal {M}}}}^\\#$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mrow>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mi>M<\/mml:mi>\n                    <\/mml:mrow>\n                    <mml:mo>#<\/mml:mo>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>. 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