{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1102971","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1102971","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q1102971","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-01-06T17:05:02Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1102971","name":"First distribution invariants and EKR theorems","headline":"First distribution invariants and EKR theorems","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4051645","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1102971","datePublished":"1988-00-00","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q757445"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q385138"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q171729"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.1016/0097-3165(88)90077-5","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0097-3165(88)90077-5"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.1016/0097-3165(88)90077-5"],"comment":"Let \\(I_ n\\) be the set of any of the following: (i) all points of a projective plane \\(P_{n-1}\\) of dimension n-1 over GF(q); (ii) all points of an affine space \\(A_{n-1}\\) of dimension n-1 over GF(q); (iii) elements of an n-set. A function \\(a: I_ n\\to R\\) is called a weight function of \\(I_ n\\) if \\(\\sum_{v\\in I_ n}a(v)\\geq 0\\). If W is a subspace (subset), let \\(a(W)=\\sum_{v\\in W}a(v)\\). Let \\(\\phi (a,d)=| \\{W| a(W)\\geq 0\\}|\\) where W's are (d-1)-dimensional subspaces or d-subsets. Consider the inequality \\((*)\\quad \\phi (a,d)\\geq N(I_ n,d)\\) where \\(N(I_ n,d)=\\left[ \\begin{matrix} n-1\\\\ d-1\\end{matrix} \\right]=(q^{n-1}- 1)...(q^{n-d+1}-1)/(q^ d-1)...(q-1)\\) in case (i) and (ii), and \\(N(I_ n,d)=\\left( \\begin{matrix} n-1\\\\ d-1\\end{matrix} \\right)\\) in case (iii). The author proves (*) for (ii) and for (i) and (iii) under the condition \\(d| n\\). It is also proved that if \\(d| n\\), any set of \\(\\left[\\begin{matrix} n- 1\\\\ d-1\\end{matrix} \\right]\\) distinct (d-1)-subspaces in \\(P_{n-1}\\) contains a d-spread. These results are applied to study the first distribution invariant of \\(J_ q(n,d)\\), the q-analogue Johnson scheme.","citation":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q3218140"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q787142"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1103621"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q757446"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1105023"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q5545191"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1086589"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q3831020"}]},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-01-06T17:05:02Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}