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Regular fat linear sets

Authors

  • Valentino Smaldore
  • Corrado Zanella
  • Ferdinando Zullo

Abstract

In this work, we introduce $(r,i)$-regular fat linear sets, which are defined as linear sets containing exactly $r$ points of weight $i$ and all other points of weight one. This notion generalizes and unifies existing constructions; scattered linear sets, clubs, and other previously studied families are special cases. We present new classes of regular fat linear sets in PG$(k-1,q^n)$ for composite $n$ and study their equivalence classes. Finally, we show that regular fat linear sets naturally yield three-weight rank-metric codes, which we use to obtain bounds on their parameters.

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2025-11-06