Structure of $t$-Intersecting Families of Vector Spaces
Abstract
We study -intersecting and -cross-intersecting families of -dimensional subspaces in finite vector spaces of dimension . We show that all large -intersecting families admit a governing low-dimensional structure for . 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 -intersecting and -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