A proof of the Etzion-Silberstein conjecture for monotone and MDS-constructible Ferrers diagrams

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Main Authors: Neri, Alessandro, Stanojkovski, Mima
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Stanojkovski, Mima
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Stanojkovski, Mima
contents Ferrers diagram rank-metric codes were introduced by Etzion and Silberstein in 2009. In their work, they proposed a conjecture on the largest dimension of a space of matrices over a finite field whose nonzero elements are supported on a given Ferrers diagram and all have rank lower bounded by a fixed positive integer $d$. Since stated, the Etzion-Silberstein conjecture has been verified in a number of cases, often requiring additional constraints on the field size or on the minimum rank $d$ in dependence of the corresponding Ferrers diagram. As of today, this conjecture still remains widely open. Using modular methods, we give a constructive proof of the Etzion-Silberstein conjecture for the class of strictly monotone Ferrers diagrams, which does not depend on the minimum rank $d$ and holds over every finite field. In addition, we leverage on the last result to also prove the conjecture for the class of MDS-constructible Ferrers diagrams, without requiring any restriction on the field size.
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spellingShingle A proof of the Etzion-Silberstein conjecture for monotone and MDS-constructible Ferrers diagrams
Neri, Alessandro
Stanojkovski, Mima
Combinatorics
Information Theory
Rings and Algebras
11T71, 15A03, 16S35, 94B05, 94B60
Ferrers diagram rank-metric codes were introduced by Etzion and Silberstein in 2009. In their work, they proposed a conjecture on the largest dimension of a space of matrices over a finite field whose nonzero elements are supported on a given Ferrers diagram and all have rank lower bounded by a fixed positive integer $d$. Since stated, the Etzion-Silberstein conjecture has been verified in a number of cases, often requiring additional constraints on the field size or on the minimum rank $d$ in dependence of the corresponding Ferrers diagram. As of today, this conjecture still remains widely open. Using modular methods, we give a constructive proof of the Etzion-Silberstein conjecture for the class of strictly monotone Ferrers diagrams, which does not depend on the minimum rank $d$ and holds over every finite field. In addition, we leverage on the last result to also prove the conjecture for the class of MDS-constructible Ferrers diagrams, without requiring any restriction on the field size.
title A proof of the Etzion-Silberstein conjecture for monotone and MDS-constructible Ferrers diagrams
topic Combinatorics
Information Theory
Rings and Algebras
11T71, 15A03, 16S35, 94B05, 94B60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16407