Conjecture on unbounded minimum cardinalities of maximal integral point sets

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Let qq be a prime power, and let Aq,s\mathcal{A}_{q,s} denote the number of non-isomorphic inclusion-maximal integral point sets over Fq2\mathbb{F}_q^2 having cardinality ss. Write lql_q for the minimum cardinality occurring among such sets.

Unbounded-minimum conjecture. For each wNw\in\mathbb{N} there exists qwNq_w\in\mathbb{N} such that

lqwl_q\ge w

for qqwq\ge q_w; equivalently,

Aq,s=0\mathcal{A}_{q,s}=0

for s<ws<w and qqwq\ge q_w.

This predicts that the minimum size of an inclusion-maximal integral point set tends to infinity with the field size, extending the paper's finite computational observations.

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Michael Kiermaier and Sascha Kurz, “Maximal integral point sets in affine planes over finite fields”, arXiv:0804.1285 (2014).

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