Maximum scattered linear sets and MRD-codes

Bence Csajbók, Giuseppe Marino, Olga Polverino +1

The rank of a scattered ${\mathbb{F}}_q$-linear set of $\mathrm{PG}(r-1,q^n)$, $rn$ even, is at most $rn/2$ as it was proved by Blokhuis and Lavrauw. Existence results and explicit c…