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On kissing numbers and spherical codes in high dimensions

Metric Geometry 2018-07-10 v2 Combinatorics Probability

Abstract

We prove a lower bound of Ω(d3/2(2/3)d)\Omega (d^{3/2} \cdot (2/\sqrt{3})^d) on the kissing number in dimension dd. This improves the classical lower bound of Chabauty, Shannon, and Wyner by a linear factor in the dimension. We obtain a similar linear factor improvement to the best known lower bound on the maximal size of a spherical code of acute angle θ\theta in high dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1803.02702,
  title  = {On kissing numbers and spherical codes in high dimensions},
  author = {Matthew Jenssen and Felix Joos and Will Perkins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.02702},
  year   = {2018}
}
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