OFFSET
1,5
COMMENTS
The codimension of the largest subspace V of GF(2)^n with the following property: any vector v in GF(2)^n has a cyclic shift which is contained in V.
LINKS
James Aaronson, Carla Groenland and Tom Johnston, Cyclically covering subspaces in F_2^n, arXiv:1903.10613 [math.CO], 2019.
Peter Cameron, David Ellis and William Raynaud, Smallest cyclically covering subspaces of F_q^n, and lower bounds in Isbell’s conjecture, arXiv:1810.03485 [math.CO], 2018-2019.
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 1 because the smallest cyclically covering subspace in GF(2)^3, spanned by (1,0,0) and (0,1,1), has codimension 1.
a(4) = 0 because the only cyclically covering subspace of GF(2)^4 is GF(2)^4 itself.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
AUTHOR
James Aaronson, May 22 2019
STATUS
approved