A study of (xvt,xvt-1)-minihypers in PG(t,q)

  • Authors:
  • I. Landjev;P. Vandendriessche

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, New Bulgarian University, 21 Montevideo str., 1618 Sofia, Bulgaria;Department of Mathematics (WE01), Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 - S22, 9000 Gent, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We study (xv"t,xv"t"-"1)-minihypers in PG(t,q), i.e. minihypers with the same parameters as a weighted sum of x hyperplanes. We characterize these minihypers as a nonnegative rational sum of hyperplanes and we use this characterization to extend and improve the main results of several papers which have appeared on the special case t=2. We establish a new link with coding theory and we use this link to construct several new infinite classes of (xv"t,xv"t"-"1)-minihypers in PG(t,q) that cannot be written as an integer sum of hyperplanes.