Mubayi's conjecture on d-cluster-free families of subspaces

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Let VV be an nn-dimensional vector space over Fq\mathbb{F}_q, and let kd3k \ge d \ge 3 be integers satisfying

ndkd1.n \ge \frac{dk}{d-1}.

For a family F[Vk]\mathcal{F} \subset \genfrac{[}{]}{0pt}{}{V}{k}, call it dd-cluster-free if it contains no dd members whose sum has dimension at most 2k2k and whose intersection is {0V}\{\mathbf{0}_V\}. Mubayi's conjecture. If F\mathcal{F} is dd-cluster-free, then

F[n1k1]q,|\mathcal{F}| \le \genfrac{[}{]}{0pt}{}{n-1}{k-1}_q,

with equality only if F\mathcal{F} is a maximum-sized star. This is the vector-space analogue of the corresponding set-system conjecture; the asserted extremal bound and equality characterization remain open in this generality.

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Primary source

Gabriel Currier and Shahriar Shahriari, “3-cluster-free families of subspaces”, arXiv:2403.04895 (2024).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1903.01622, arXiv:1811.07064, arXiv:math/0605171.

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