Extension conjecture for planes in the Klein quadric

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Let qq be a prime power, let Q=Q+(5,q)\mathcal{Q}=Q^+(5,q) be the Klein quadric, and fix a plane π\pi in Q\mathcal{Q}. Let P\mathcal{P} be the set of planes in Q\mathcal{Q} disjoint from π\pi; the supplied context states that P\mathcal{P} is a spanning qq-divisible set of q3q^3 planes in PG⁡(5,q)\operatorname{PG}(5,q), with every pair of planes intersecting in a point. Extension conjecture. The extension problem for P\mathcal{P} admits a solution for all prime powers qq. Such a solution would provide the missing extension to a tight irreducible affine vector space partition of PG⁡(6,q)\operatorname{PG}(6,q) of type 4q34^{q^3}; the supplied text does not establish existence of the extension.

References

Primary source

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

Additional references

7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2002–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2112.14803, arXiv:2108.04985, arXiv:2104.12254, arXiv:2103.12655, arXiv:1109.3057, arXiv:math/0210341.

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