Erdös-Ko-Rado theorem in some linear groups and some projective special linear group
Let V be the 2-dimensional column vector space over a finite field \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{upgreek} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage{bbm} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} $$\mathbb{F}_q$$ \end{document} (where q is necessarily a power of a prime number) and let ℙq be the projective line over \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{upgreek} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage{bbm} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} $$\mathbb{F}_q$$ \end{document}. In this paper, it is shown that GL2(q), for q ≠ 3, and SL2(q) acting on V − {0} have the strict EKR property and GL2(3) has the EKR property, but it does not have the strict EKR property. Also, we show that GLn(q) acting on \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{upgreek} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage{bbm} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} $$\left( {\mathbb{F}_q } \right)^n - \left\{ 0 \right\}$$ \end{document} has the EKR property and the derangement graph of PSL2(q) acting on ℙq, where q ≡ −1 (mod 4), has a clique of size q + 1.