Existence of optimal cyclic subspace codes

Let qq be a prime power and let kk and nn be positive integers satisfying n>2kn>2k. A cyclic subspace code is a single-orbit code under scalar multiplication, and Gq(n,k)\mathcal{G}_q(n,k) denotes the Grassmannian of kk-dimensional subspaces of Fqn\mathbb{F}_q^n.

Existence conjecture. There exists a cyclic subspace code CGq(n,k)\mathcal{C}\subseteq \mathcal{G}_q(n,k) such that

C=qn1q1|\mathcal{C}|=\frac{q^n-1}{q-1}

and

d(C)=2k2.d(\mathcal{C})=2k-2.

Such codes would attain the stated orbit size and minimum distance simultaneously for every prime power qq and all positive integers k,nk,n with n>2kn>2k.

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Primary source

Yun Li, Hongwei Liu and Sihem Mesnager, “Constructions of Constant Dimension Subspace Codes”, arXiv:2305.13913 (2023).

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