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Any solution has at most one nonidentity automorphism and tightly fixed intersections

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

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Originating problem: A binary q-analog of the Fano plane

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Any solution has at most one nonidentity automorphism and tightly fixed intersections
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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.

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.

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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

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