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Intersection sizes of linear subspaces with the hypercube

Combinatorics 2018-10-08 v1

Abstract

We continue the study by Melo and Winter [arXiv:1712.01763, 2017] on the possible intersection sizes of a kk-dimensional subspace with the vertices of the nn-dimensional hypercube in Euclidean space. Melo and Winter conjectured that all intersection sizes larger than 2k12^{k-1} (the "large" sizes) are of the form 2k1+2i2^{k-1}+2^i. We show that this is almost true: the large intersection sizes are either of this form or of the form 352k635\cdot 2^{k-6}. We also disprove a second conjecture of Melo and Winter by proving that a positive fraction of the "small" values is missing.

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@article{arxiv.1810.02729,
  title  = {Intersection sizes of linear subspaces with the hypercube},
  author = {Carla Groenland and Tom Johnston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02729},
  year   = {2018}
}
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