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Sphere packing bounds in the Grassmann and Stiefel manifolds

Metric Geometry 2007-07-16 v4 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

Applying the Riemann geometric machinery of volume estimates in terms of curvature, bounds for the minimal distance of packings/codes in the Grassmann and Stiefel manifolds will be derived and analyzed. In the context of space-time block codes this leads to a monotonically increasing minimal distance lower bound as a function of the block length. This advocates large block lengths for the code design.

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@article{arxiv.math/0308110,
  title  = {Sphere packing bounds in the Grassmann and Stiefel manifolds},
  author = {Oliver Henkel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0308110},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Replaced with final version, 11 pages