Maximum size of r-cross t-intersecting families

Given r families of subsets of a fixed n-set, we say that they are r-cross t-intersecting if for every choice of representatives, exactly one from each family, the common intersection of these representatives is of size at least t. We obtain a generalisation of a result by Hilton and Milner on cross intersecting families. In particular, we determine the maximum possible sum of the sizes of non-empty r-cross t-intersecting families in the case when all families are k-uniform and in the case when they are arbitrary subfamilies of the power set. Only some special cases of these results had been proved before. The method we use also yields more general results concerning measures of families instead of their sizes.

Subjects

Erdos-Ko-Rado

Extremal set theory

Hilton-Milner

intersecting families

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Maximum size of r-cross t-intersecting families