Chowla subspace matching conjecture

Let KLK\subset L be a field extension, and let AA and BB be two nn-dimensional KK-subspaces of LL. A KK-subspace BB is called a Chowla subspace if every nonzero bBb\in B satisfies

[K(b):K]dimKB+1.[K(b):K]\geq \dim_K B+1.

Chowla matching conjecture. If BB is a Chowla subspace, then AA is matched to BB.

This is proposed as a linear counterpart to the corresponding matching theorem for Chowla subsets in abelian groups. The source notes that primitive subspaces in finite separable extensions are Chowla subspaces and gives a lower bound for the maximum possible dimension, but the asserted matching statement remains unresolved.

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Primary source

Mohsen Aliabadi, “Conditions for matchability in groups and field extensions II”, arXiv:2309.14664 (2024).

Additional references

15 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2109.01200, arXiv:2109.06291, arXiv:2104.15004, arXiv:1910.14674, arXiv:1809.01841, arXiv:1809.02518, arXiv:1711.06326, arXiv:1612.03095, arXiv:1609.03435, arXiv:1606.05630, arXiv:1605.04628, arXiv:1509.01545, and 2 more.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14664 Hamidoune (year not specified), result on matchable sets and Chowla subsets

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