It is not difficult to get a formula for the number of $n\times n$-matrices $g\in\mathrm{Mat}_{n}(\mathbb{F}_{q})$ with $\mathrm{rank}(g)=k$. Namely we have got \begin{align*} \mid\{g\in\mathrm{Mat}_{n}(\mathbb{F}\_{q})\mid \mathrm{rank}(g)=k\}\mid = \binom{n}{k}\_{q}\cdot(q^{n}-1)\cdots(q^{n}-q^{k-1}) \end{align*} with $\binom{n}{k}_{q}=\frac{(q^{n}-1)\cdots(q^{n}-q^{k-1})}{(q^{k}-1)\cdots(q^{k}-q^{k-1})}$. My question is now, if it is possible to get a formula in the same fashion for the following number \begin{align*} f(n,q,k):=\mid\{g\in\mathrm{Mat}_{2n}(\mathbb{F}\_{q})\mid g=\begin{pmatrix} A & B \\\ C & -A^{t} \end{pmatrix}, B=B^{t}, C=C^{t} \\text{ and }\mathrm{rank}(g)=k\}\mid \end{align*}. My conjecture (based on computer data for small $n$ and $k$) is the following, but I have no idea for the proof. \begin{align*} f(2n,q,2k)=\binom{2n}{2k}\_{q}\cdot q^{(n-k)(n-k+1)}\displaystyle\prod_{i=1}^{n-k}(q^{2i-1}-1), \end{align*} \begin{align*} f(2n,q,2k+1)=\binom{2n}{2k+1}\_{q}\cdot q^{(n-k)(n-k-1)}\displaystyle\prod_{i=1}^{n-k}(q^{2i-1}-1) \end{align*}
What is the number of $2n\times 2n$-matrices $g=\begin{pmatrix} A & B \\\ C & -A^{t} \end{pmatrix}$, $B$ and $C$ symmetric, over the finite field $\mathbb{F}\_{q}$ with $\mathrm{rank}(g)=k$?
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