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arxiv: 1709.05145 · v2 · pith:UGFBC2DZnew · submitted 2017-09-15 · 🧮 math.CO

The binary q-analogue of the Fano plane has a trivial automorphism group

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A $q$-analogue of a $t$-design is a set $S$ of subspaces (of dimension $k$) of a finite vector space $V$ over a field of order $q$ such that each $t$ subspace is contained in a constant $\lambda$ number of elements of $S$. The smallest nontrivial feasible parameters occur when $V$ has dimension $7$, $t=2$, $q=2$, and $k=3$; which is the $q$-analogue of a $2$-$(7,3,1)$ design, the Fano plane. The existence of the binary $q$-analogue of the Fano plane has yet to be resolved, and it was shown by Kiermaier et al. (2016) that such a configuration must have an automorphism group of order at most $2$. We show that the binary $q$-analogue of the Fano plane has a trivial automorphism group.

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