Bulk-boundary-defect correspondence at disclinations in rotation-symmetric topological insulators and superconductors

We study a link between the ground-state topology and the topology of the lattice via the presence of anomalous states at disclinations -- topological lattice defects that violate a rotation symmetry only locally. We first show the existence of anomalous disclination states, such as Majorana zero-modes or helical electronic states, in second-order topological phases by means of Volterra processes. Using the framework of topological crystals to construct d-dimensional crystalline topological phases with rotation and translation symmetry, we then identify all contributions to (d-2)-dimensional anomalous disclination states from weak and first-order topological phases. We perform this procedure for all Cartan symmetry classes of topological insulators and superconductors in two and three dimensions and determine whether the correspondence between bulk topology, boundary signatures, and disclination anomaly is unique.

Using Inclusion / Exclusion to find Bent and Balanced Monomial Rotation Symmetric Functions

There are many cryptographic applications of Boolean functions. Recently, research has been done on monomial rotation symmetric (MRS) functions which have useful cryptographic properties. In this paper we use the inclusion/exclusion principle to construct formulas for the weights of two subclasses of MRS functions: degree d short MRS functions and d-functions. From these results we classify bent and balanced functions of these forms.