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Optimal line packings from nonabelian groups

Functional Analysis 2019-03-21 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

We use group schemes to construct optimal packings of lines through the origin. In this setting, optimal line packings are naturally characterized using representation theory, which in turn leads to a necessary integrality condition for the existence of equiangular central group frames. We conclude with an infinite family of optimal line packings using the group schemes associated with certain Suzuki 2-groups, specifically, extensions of Heisenberg groups. Notably, this is the first known infinite family of equiangular tight frames generated by representations of nonabelian groups.

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@article{arxiv.1609.09836,
  title  = {Optimal line packings from nonabelian groups},
  author = {Joseph W. Iverson and John Jasper and Dustin G. Mixon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09836},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

28 pages. During the revision process, portions of v1 were removed and expanded to form arXiv:1709.03558

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