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Generalised evasive subspaces

2024; Wiley; Volume: 32; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/jcd.21953

1520-6610

Anina Gruica, Alberto Ravagnani, John Sheekey, Ferdinando Zullo,

Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals

Abstract We introduce and explore a new concept of evasive subspace with respect to a collection of subspaces sharing a common dimension, most notably partial spreads. We show that this concept generalises known notions of subspace scatteredness and evasiveness. We establish various upper bounds for the dimension of an evasive subspace with respect to arbitrary partial spreads, obtaining improvements for the Desarguesian ones. We also establish existence results for evasive spaces in a nonconstructive way, using a graph theory approach. The upper and lower bounds we derive have a precise interpretation as bounds for the critical exponent of certain combinatorial geometries. Finally, we investigate connections between the notion of evasive space we introduce and the theory of rank‐metric codes, obtaining new results on the covering radius and on the existence of minimal vector rank‐metric codes.