Ball's strong cylinder conjecture for p-divisible sets in finite affine 3-space

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Let SFp3S\subseteq\mathbb{F}_p^3 be a set of p2p^2 points, where pp is prime. The set SS is pp-divisible if every affine hyperplane in Fp3\mathbb{F}_p^3 intersects SS in a number of points congruent to 0(modp)0\pmod p. A cylinder is the union of pp pairwise disjoint parallel lines. The strong cylinder conjecture. If SS is pp-divisible, then SS is a cylinder. The strong form replaces the directional hypothesis of the weak form by the algebraic condition of pp-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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