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The Lemmens-Seidel conjecture for base size $5$

Combinatorics 2022-09-20 v1

Abstract

In 2020, Lin and Yu claimed to prove the so-called Lemmens-Seidel conjecture for base size 55. However, their proof has a gap, and in fact, some set of equiangular lines found by Greaves et al. in 2021 is a counterexample to one of their claims. In this paper, we give a proof of the conjecture for base size 55. Also, we answer in the negative a question of Greaves et al. in 2021 whether some sets of 5757 equiangular lines with common angle arccos(1/5)\arccos(1/5) in dimension 1818 are contained in a unique set of 276276 equiangular lines with common angle arccos(1/5)\arccos(1/5) in dimension 2323. In addition, we answer in the negative a question of Cao et al. in 2021 whether a strongly maximal set of equiangular lines with common angle arccos(1/5)\arccos(1/5) exists except the set of 276276 equiangular lines with common angle arccos(1/5)\arccos(1/5) in dimension 2323.

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@article{arxiv.2209.08308,
  title  = {The Lemmens-Seidel conjecture for base size $5$},
  author = {Kiyoto Yoshino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.08308},
  year   = {2022}
}

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