Characteristic-two dimension conjecture for 2-spec matrix spaces

Let K\mathbb{K} be a field of characteristic 22 with more than 22 elements, and let V\mathcal{V} be a 22-spec subspace of Mn(K)\operatorname{M}_n(\mathbb{K}). Characteristic-two 2-spec dimension conjecture. If n=3n=3 or n5n\geq 5, then

dimV(n2)+3.\dim \mathcal{V}\leq \binom{n}{2}+3.

If n=4n=4, then

dimV(n2)+4.\dim \mathcal{V}\leq \binom{n}{2}+4.

The characteristic-not-22 analogue with bound (n2)+2\binom{n}{2}+2 is proved earlier in the paper, while examples show that characteristic 22 requires the larger bounds above; the two-element field is excluded because every linear subspace is a 22-spec space.

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Clément de Seguins Pazzis, “Spaces of matrices with few eigenvalues”, arXiv:1302.0301 (2013).

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