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Nonexistence of tight spherical design of harmonic index 4

Metric Geometry 2014-09-25 v1

Abstract

We give a new upper bound of the cardinality of a set of equiangular lines in Rn\R^n with a fixed angle θ\theta for each (n,θ)(n,\theta) satisfying certain conditions. Our techniques are based on semi-definite programming methods for spherical codes introduced by Bachoc--Vallentin [J.Amer.Math.Soc.2008]. As a corollary to our bound, we show the nonexistence of spherical tight designs of harmonic index 4 on Sn1S^{n-1} with n3n \geq 3.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6995,
  title  = {Nonexistence of tight spherical design of harmonic index 4},
  author = {Takayuki Okuda and Wei-Hsuan Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6995},
  year   = {2014}
}