Abstract: | We consider the extremal problem to determine the maximal number
of columns of a 0-1 matrix with
rows and at most
ones in each column such that each
columns are linearly independent modulo
. For fixed integers
and
, we shall prove the probabilistic lower bound
=
; for
a power of
, we prove the upper bound
which matches the lower bound for infinitely many values of
. We give some explicit constructions. |