On -points of q-analogs of the Fano plane

DOI10.1007/S10623-022-01033-3MaRDI QIDQ2672292zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 8 June 2022

Published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00365

zbMATH Keywords

Steiner systemsubspace designFano plane\(q\)-analogsubspace code

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) (q)-calculus and related topics (05A30) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Steiner systems in finite geometry (51E10) Other types of codes (94B60) Spreads and packing problems in finite geometry (51E23)

Abstract: Arguably, the most important open problem in the theory of $q$-analogs of designs is the question for the existence of a $q$-analog $D$ of the Fano plane. It is undecided for every single prime power value $qgeq2$. A point $P$ is called an $alpha$-point of $D$ if the derived design of $D$ in $P$ is a geometric spread. In 1996, Simon Thomas has shown that there must always exist at least one non-$alpha$-point. For the binary case $q=2$, Olof Heden and Papa Sissokho have improved this result in 2016 by showing that the non-$alpha$-points must form a blocking set with respect to the hyperplanes. In this article, we show that a hyperplane consisting only of $alpha$-points implies the existence of a partiton of the symplectic generalized quadrangle $W(q)$ into spreads. As a consequence, the statement of Heden and Sissokho is generalized to all primes $q$ and all even values of $q$.

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