English

A modular equality for Cameron-Liebler line classes in projective and affine spaces of odd dimension

Combinatorics 2024-03-04 v1

Abstract

In this article we study Cameron-Liebler line classes in PG(n,q)(n,q) and AG(n,q)(n,q), objects also known as boolean degree one functions. A Cameron-Liebler line class L\mathcal{L} is known to have a parameter xx that depends on the size of L\mathcal{L}. One of the main questions on Cameron-Liebler line classes is the (non)-existence of these sets for certain parameters xx. In particularly it is proven in [12] for n=3n=3, that the parameter xx should satisfy a modular equality. This equality excludes about half of the possible parameters. We generalize this result to a modular equality for Cameron-Liebler line classes in PG(n,q)(n,q), and AG(n,q)(n,q) respectively. Since it is known that a Cameron-Liebler line class in AG(n,q)(n,q) is also a Cameron-Liebler line class in its projective closure, we end this paper with proving that the modular equality in AG(n,q)(n,q) is a stronger condition than the condition for the projective case.

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@article{arxiv.2110.09330,
  title  = {A modular equality for Cameron-Liebler line classes in projective and affine spaces of odd dimension},
  author = {Jan De Beule and Jonathan Mannaert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09330},
  year   = {2024}
}