On Even-Period Binary Z-Complementary Pairs with Large ZCZs

For an even-period binary Z-complementary pair (EB-ZCP), if it is not a Golay complementary pair (GCP), we show that Z ≤ N-2, where N and Z denote the sequence length and the zero correlation zone (ZCZ) width, respectively. This result partially answers the Fan-Yuan-Tu conjecture in 2007. In addition, we present a construction of EB-ZCPs with large ZCZ widths, where N=2^m+1+2^m and Z=2^m+1. Interestingly, each of the proposed EB-ZCPs features zero out-of-phase aperiodic auto-correlation sums except for the time-shift of ±2^m+1, thus displaying a very close correlation property to that of GCPs.