The supertail of a subspace partition (Q369434)

Viewing one dimensional subspaces of a vector space \(V\) as points in the projective geometric sense, we say \(P\) is a subspace partition of \(V\) if it is a collection of non-zero subspaces of \(V\) such that each point of \(V\) is in exactly one subspace of \(V\). Denote the dimensions in the partition \(d_i\), with \(d_1 <d_2 < \dots < d_m\). Given \(s \leq m\), the set of subspaces in \(P\) of dimension less than \(d_s\) is the \(s\)-supertail of \(P\). Denote by \(\sigma_q(n,t)\) the minimum size of a subspace partition where \(t\) is the largest dimension of a subspace. The authors prove for every \(n\) and \(q\) and every \(s\)-supertail \(ST\) of a subspace partition of \(V(n,q)\), \(|ST| \geq \sigma_q(d_s,d_{s-1})\).