A note on Erdös-Ko-Rado sets of generators in Hermitian polar spaces

2015/02/18 by Metsch, Klaus
#Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1502.05259

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(2d-1,q²) when d≥ 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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