Association schemes based on attenuated spaces

The subspaces of a given dimension in an attenuated space form the points of an association scheme. If the dimension is maximal, it is the bilinear forms graph, which has been thoroughly studied. In this paper, we discuss the general case, and obtain a family of symmetric association schemes which are a common generalization of the Grassmann schemes and the bilinear forms schemes. Moreover, all the parameters of the association scheme are computed.