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[#R626] Any solution has at most one nonidentity automorphism and tightly fixed intersections

claim. Peer-reviewed results reduce the automorphism group to the trivial group or one specified involution and fix the solid intersection distributions.

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1Summary

Kiermaier, Kurz, and Wassermann proved that the full automorphism group of a binary q-Fano plane is either trivial or cyclic of order two. In the order-two case, its conjugacy class in \(\operatorname{GL}(7,2)\) is fixed. This restriction explains why symmetry-based searches cannot finish the unrestricted problem: a solution may be rigid.

Intersection-number equations impose further conditions. A 4-subspace contains at most one block. If it contains none, the numbers of blocks meeting it in dimensions \(0,1,2,3\) are \[ (136,210,35,0). \] If it contains a block, the vector is \[ (128,224,28,1). \] Among the 11,811 solids, 6,096 have the first type and 5,715 have the second.

Supported evidence. Recorded scope: necessary structure of any binary 2-(7,3,1)_2 subspace design.

2Evidence

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Verification source: doi.org ↗, Kiermaier, Kurz, and Wassermann, The order of the automorphism group of a binary q-analog of the Fano plane is at most two, Theorem 1; Kiermaier and Pavcevic, Intersection numbers for subspace designs, Journal of Combinatorial Designs 23 (2015), section 4; Kiermaier, On alpha-points of q-analogs of the Fano plane, Theorem 2

3Overview

At every point, the 21 incident blocks induce a line spread of \(\operatorname{PG}(5,2)\). A point is called an alpha-point when this spread is geometric. Kiermaier's 2022 theorem implies that every hyperplane contains a non-alpha-point, so the non-alpha-points form a hyperplane-blocking set.

4What was measured

Automorphism group orders allowed
1, 2
Solid intersection vector without block
136, 210, 35, 0
Solid intersection vector with block
128, 224, 28, 1
Solids without block
6,096
Solids with block
5,715
Non alpha points meet every hyperplane
yes

5How it connects

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7Provenance

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Project
q-analog-fano-plane
Locator
Kiermaier, Kurz, and Wassermann, The order of the automorphism group of a binary q-analog of the Fano plane is at most two, Theorem 1; Kiermaier and Pavcevic, Intersection numbers for subspace designs, Journal of Combinatorial Designs 23 (2015), section 4; Kiermaier, On alpha-points of q-analogs of the Fano plane, Theorem 2
License
CC0-1.0
Contributors
TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
Public record
R626
Stable alias
qafp-structural-restrictions
Projection
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