Bounds on antipodal spherical designs with few angles

Zhiqiang Xu¹ ; Zili Xu² ; Wei-Hsuan Yu³

¹Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
²Academy of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
³Mathematics Department, National Central University

The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 28 (2021) no. 3

Résumé

A finite subset $X$ on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ is called an $s$-distance set with strength $t$ if its angle set $A(X):=\{\langle \mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}\rangle : \mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}\in X, \mathbf{x}\neq\mathbf{y} \}$ has size $s$, and $X$ is a spherical $t$-design but not a spherical $(t+1)$-design. In this paper, we consider to estimate the maximum size of such antipodal set $X$ for small $s$. Motivated by the method developed by Nozaki and Suda, for each even integer $s\in[\frac{t+5}{2}, t+1]$ with $t\geq 3$, we improve the best known upper bound of Delsarte, Goethals and Seidel. We next focus on two special cases: $s=3,\ t=3$ and $s=4,\ t=5$. Estimating the size of $X$ for these two cases is equivalent to estimating the size of real equiangular tight frames (ETFs) and Levenstein-equality packings, respectively. We improve the previous estimate on the size of real ETFs and Levenstein-equality packings. This in turn gives an upper bound on $|X|$ when $s=3,\ t=3$ and $s=4,\ t=5$, respectively.

Détail

DOI : 10.37236/9891

Classification : 05B30, 05E30, 51D20
Mots-clés : \(s\)-distance set, optimal line packing problem