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A simple construction of complex equiangular lines

Combinatorics 2015-01-13 v3

Abstract

A set of vectors of equal norm in Cd\mathbb{C}^d represents equiangular lines if the magnitudes of the inner product of every pair of distinct vectors in the set are equal. The maximum size of such a set is d2d^2, and it is conjectured that sets of this maximum size exist in Cd\mathbb{C}^d for every d2d \geq 2. We describe a new construction for maximum-sized sets of equiangular lines, exposing a previously unrecognized connection with Hadamard matrices. The construction produces a maximum-sized set of equiangular lines in dimensions 2, 3 and 8.

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@article{arxiv.1408.2492,
  title  = {A simple construction of complex equiangular lines},
  author = {Jonathan Jedwab and Amy Wiebe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2492},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

11 pages; minor revisions and comments added in section 1 describing a link to previously known results; correction to Theorem 1 and updates to references

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