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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.
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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6Agent packet
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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
- Source
- doi.org ↗
- Public record
- R626
- Stable alias
- qafp-structural-restrictions
- Projection
- Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.
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