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Finite two-distance tight frames

Functional Analysis 2015-02-26 v3

Abstract

A finite collection of unit vectors SRnS \subset \mathbb{R}^n is called a spherical two-distance set if there are two numbers aa and bb such that the inner products of distinct vectors from SS are either aa or bb. We prove that if ab,a\ne -b, then a two-distance set that forms a tight frame for Rn\mathbb{R}^n is a spherical embedding of a strongly regular graph, and every strongly regular graph gives rise to two-distance tight frames through standard spherical embeddings. Together with an earlier work by S. Waldron on the equiangular case ({\em Linear Alg. Appl.}, vol. 41, pp. 2228-2242, 2009) this completely characterizes two-distance tight frames. As an intermediate result, we obtain a classification of all two-distance 2-designs.\

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@article{arxiv.1402.3521,
  title  = {Finite two-distance tight frames},
  author = {Alexander Barg and Alexei Glazyrin and Kasso Okoudjou and Wei-Hsuan Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.3521},
  year   = {2015}
}
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