讲座内容：

The concept of linear sets in projective spaces was introduced by Lunardon in 1999 and it plays central roles in the study of blocking sets, semifields, rank-metric codes and etc. A linear set with the largest possible cardinality is called scattered. Despite of two decades of study, there are only three known families of maximum scattered linear sets defined over PG(1,q^n) for infinitely many n. The first family is called pseudo-regulus type by Blokhuis and Lavrauw in 1999. The second family was found by Lunardon and Polverino in 2001 and later generalized by Sheekey in 2016. The third family was constructed by Longobardi, Marino, Trombetti and the speaker recently.

In this talk, we consider the equivalence problem of maximum scattered linear sets and we show some restrictions on their automorphism groups.