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Structure of $t$-Intersecting Families of Vector Spaces

Combinatorics 2026-05-05 v1

Abstract

We study tt-intersecting and tt-cross-intersecting families of kk-dimensional subspaces in finite vector spaces of dimension nn. We show that all large tt-intersecting families admit a governing low-dimensional structure for n2k+1n \ge 2k+1. This result, together with its cross-intersecting variant, allows us to prove analogues of several classical extremal set-theoretic results. In particular, we determine the intersecting families with the largest diversity, and we establish a Frankl-type degree-diversity result that generalizes the Hilton-Milner theorem. Our proofs rely on simplification procedures for tt-intersecting and tt-cross-intersecting families of subspaces. These procedures are based on the concept of subspace spreadness, a generalization of the classical notion of spreadness for set systems.

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@article{arxiv.2605.02698,
  title  = {Structure of $t$-Intersecting Families of Vector Spaces},
  author = {Ferdinand Ihringer and Andrey Kupavskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.02698},
  year   = {2026}
}

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25 pages