Improvement to the sunflower bound for a class of equidistant constant dimension subspace codes

An equidistant constant dimension subspace code C is a set of k-dimensional subspaces in a vector space V over the finite field of order q, which pairwise intersect in subspaces of a fixed dimension t. The classical example of an equidistant constant dimension subspace code C is a set of k-spaces, passing through a fixed t-space. This particular example is called a sunflower. The sunflower bound states that if the size of C is larger than (q(k)-q(t)/q-1)(2) + q(k)-q(t)/q-1 + 1, then C is a sunflower. We improve this sunflower bound for an equidistant constant dimension subspace code C of k-spaces, pairwise intersecting in a 1-space.

Publication year:2021

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