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A note on Erd\"os-Ko-Rado sets of generators in Hermitian polar spaces

Combinatorics 2015-02-19 v1

Abstract

The size of the largest Erd\H os-Ko-Rado set of generators in the finite classical polar space is known for all polar spaces except for H(2d1,q2)H(2d-1,q^2) when d5d\ge 5 is odd. We improve the known upper bound in this remaining case by using a variant of the famous Hoffman's bound.

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@article{arxiv.1502.05259,
  title  = {A note on Erd\"os-Ko-Rado sets of generators in Hermitian polar spaces},
  author = {Klaus Metsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05259},
  year   = {2015}
}