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Roux schemes which carry association schemes locally

Combinatorics 2026-04-08 v3

Abstract

A roux scheme is an association scheme formed from a special "roux" matrix and the regular permutation representation of an associated group. They were introduced by Iverson and Mixon for their connection to equiangular tight frames and doubly transitive lines. We show how roux matrices can be produced from association schemes and characterise roux schemes for which the neighbourhood of a vertex induces an association scheme possessing the same number of relations as the thin radical. An important example arises from the 6464 equiangular lines in C8\mathbb{C}^8 constructed by Hoggar which we prove is unique (determined by its parameters up to isomorphism). We also characterise roux schemes by their eigenmatrices and provide new families of roux schemes using our construction.

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@article{arxiv.2507.18960,
  title  = {Roux schemes which carry association schemes locally},
  author = {Alexander L. Gavrilyuk and Jesse Lansdown and Akihiro Munemasa and Sho Suda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.18960},
  year   = {2026}
}

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