Non-trivial $t$-intersecting families for vector spaces

Mengyu Cao, Benjian Lv, Kaishun Wang, Sanming Zhou

Published 2020-07-23Version 1

Let $V$ be an $n$-dimensional vector space over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. In this paper we describe the structure of maximal non-trivial $t$-intersecting families of $k$-dimensional subspaces of $V$ with large size. We also determine the non-trivial $t$-intersecting families with maximum size. In the special case when $t=1$ our result gives rise to the well-known Hilton-Milner Theorem for vector spaces.