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EXISTENCE OF $q$-ANALOGS OF STEINER SYSTEMS

Part of: Finite geometry and special incidence structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2016

MICHAEL BRAUN ,
TUVI ETZION ,
PATRIC R. J. ÖSTERGÅRD ,
ALEXANDER VARDY  and
ALFRED WASSERMANN
MICHAEL BRAUN
Affiliation:
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany; [email protected]
TUVI ETZION
Affiliation:
Technion, Haifa, Israel; [email protected]
PATRIC R. J. ÖSTERGÅRD
Affiliation:
Aalto University, Aalto, Finland; [email protected]
ALEXANDER VARDY
Affiliation:
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; [email protected]
ALFRED WASSERMANN
Affiliation:
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany; [email protected]

Abstract

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Let $\mathbb{F}_{q}^{n}$ be a vector space of dimension $n$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$. A $q$-analog of a Steiner system (also known as a $q$-Steiner system), denoted ${\mathcal{S}}_{q}(t,\!k,\!n)$, is a set ${\mathcal{S}}$ of $k$-dimensional subspaces of $\mathbb{F}_{q}^{n}$ such that each $t$-dimensional subspace of $\mathbb{F}_{q}^{n}$ is contained in exactly one element of ${\mathcal{S}}$. Presently, $q$-Steiner systems are known only for $t\,=\,1\!$, and in the trivial cases $t\,=\,k$ and $k\,=\,n$. In this paper, the first nontrivial $q$-Steiner systems with $t\,\geqslant \,2$ are constructed. Specifically, several nonisomorphic $q$-Steiner systems ${\mathcal{S}}_{2}(2,3,13)$ are found by requiring that their automorphism groups contain the normalizer of a Singer subgroup of $\text{GL}(13,2)$. This approach leads to an instance of the exact cover problem, which turns out to have many solutions.

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Primary: 51E10: Steiner systems
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