Ball's strong cylinder conjecture for p-divisible sets in finite affine 3-space
Let be a set of points, where is prime. The set is -divisible if every affine hyperplane in intersects in a number of points congruent to . A cylinder is the union of pairwise disjoint parallel lines. The strong cylinder conjecture. If is -divisible, then is a cylinder. The strong form replaces the directional hypothesis of the weak form by the algebraic condition of -divisibility; the source presents it as an open problem.
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Gergely Kiss, Ádám Markó, Zoltán Lóránt Nagy and Gábor Somlai, “Cylinder type and p-divisible sets in F_p^3”, arXiv:2601.09910 (2026).
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