Existence of tight irreducible affine vector space partitions from divisible dimensions

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Let nn be a positive integer, let qq be a prime power, and let kk be an integer with 1<k<n1<k<n such that kk divides nn. An affine vector space partition is a partition of the points of an affine space into affine subspaces; it is tight when its members have the prescribed uniform intersection properties, and irreducible when no two members lie in a common proper projective subspace. Existence conjecture. For each integer 1<k<n1<k<n that divides nn, there exists a tight irreducible affine vector space partition U\mathcal{U} of PG⁡(n−1,q)\operatorname{PG}(n-1,q) of type kmk^m, where m=qn−km=q^{n-k}. This would extend the preceding construction from the case k=n/2k=n/2 to every proper divisor kk of nn; the supplied text gives no proof or status evidence for the assertion.

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John Bamberg, Yuval Filmus, Ferdinand Ihringer and Sascha Kurz, “Affine vector space partitions”, arXiv:2211.16561 (2023).

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