Generalised Evasive Subspaces

arXiv2207.01027MaRDI QIDQ6403848FDOQ6403848

Authors: Anina Gruica, Alberto Ravagnani, John Sheekey, Ferdinando Zullo 

Publication date: 3 July 2022

Abstract: We introduce and explore a new concept of scattered subspace with respect to a collection of subspaces sharing a common dimension, most notably partial spreads. We show that this concept generalises known notions of subspace scatteredness. We establish various upper bounds for the dimension of a scattered subspace with respect to arbitrary partial spreads, obtaining improvements for the Desarguesian ones. We also establish existence results for scattered spaces in a non-constructive way, using a graph theory approach. The upper and lower bounds we derive have a precise interpretation as bounds for the critical exponent of certain combinatorial geometries. Finally, we investigate connections between the notion of scattered space we introduce and the theory of rank-metric codes, obtaining new results on the covering radius and on the existence of minimal vector rank-metric codes.

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