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A finite set of distinct vectors $\mathcal{X}$ in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ is called an $s$-distance set if the set of mutual distances between distinct elements of $\mathcal{X}$ has cardinality $s$. In this paper…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Ferenc Szöllősi , Patric R. J. Östergård

We obtain new restrictions on the linear programming bound for sphere packing, by optimizing over spaces of modular forms to produce feasible points in the dual linear program. In contrast to the situation in dimensions 8 and 24, where the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Henry Cohn , Nicholas Triantafillou

We Use the method of linearly independent polynomials to derive an upper bound for the cardinality of a spherical s-distance set F where the sum of distinct inner products of any two elements from F is zero. Our result generalizes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Mrinmoy Datta , Subrata Manna

A set $C$ of unit vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is called an $L$-spherical code if $x \cdot y \in L$ for any distinct $x,y$ in $C$. Spherical codes have been extensively studied since their introduction in the 1970's by Delsarte, Goethals and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Peter Keevash , Benny Sudakov

A finite set of the Euclidean space is called an $s$-distance set provided the number of Euclidean distances in the set is $s$. Determining the largest possible $s$-distance set for the Euclidean space of a given dimension is challenging.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara , Sho Suda

Inspired by a recently formulated conjecture by Bannai et al. we investigate spherical codes which admit exactly three different distances and are spherical 5-designs. Computing and analyzing distance distributions we provide new proof of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Peter Boyvalenkov , Navid Safaei

We investigate spherical 4-distance 7-designs by studying their distance distributions. We compute these distance distributions and use their product (an integer) to derive certain divisibility conditions relating the dimension $n$ and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Peter Boyvalenkov , Navid Safaei

This paper makes a deep study of regular two-distance sets. A set of unit vectors $X$ in Euclidean space $\RR^n$ is said to be regular two-distance set if the inner product of any pair of its vectors is either $\alpha$ or $\beta$, and the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Peter G. Casazza , Tin T. Tran , Janet C. Tremain

In this paper we investigate the Erd\"os/Falconer distance conjecture for a natural class of sets statistically, though not necessarily arithmetically, similar to a lattice. We prove a good upper bound for spherical means that have been…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alex Iosevich , Misha Rudnev

A finite subset of a Euclidean space is called an $s$-distance set if there exist exactly $s$ values of the Euclidean distances between two distinct points in the set. In this paper, we prove that the maximum cardinality among all…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara

We have the Fisher type inequality and the linear programming bound as upper bounds for the cardinalities of $s$-distance sets on $S^{d-1}$. In this paper, we give a new upper bound for the cardinalities of $s$-distance sets on $S^{d-1}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-29 Hiroshi Nozaki

We show that the spectral embeddings of all known triangle-free strongly regular graphs are optimal spherical codes (the new cases are $56$ points in $20$ dimensions, $50$ points in $21$ dimensions, and $77$ points in $21$ dimensions), as…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Henry Cohn , David de Laat , Nando Leijenhorst

We give theorems that can be used to upper bound the densities of packings of different spherical caps in the unit sphere and of translates of different convex bodies in Euclidean space. These theorems extend the linear programming bounds…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-26 David de Laat , Fernando Mario de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

We develop a new approach to address some classical questions concerning the size and structure of integer distance sets. Our main result is that any integer distance set in the Euclidean plane is either very sparse or has all but an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Rachel Greenfeld , Marina Iliopoulou , Sarah Peluse

We derive a new estimate of the size of finite sets of points in metric spaces with few distances. The following applications are considered: (1) we improve the Ray-Chaudhuri--Wilson bound of the size of uniform intersecting families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-29 Alexander Barg , Oleg R. Musin

Estimates of the fractal dimension $D$ of the set of galaxies in the universe, based on ever improving data sets, tend to settle on $D\approx 2$. This result raised a raging debate due to its glaring contradiction with astrophysical models…

Most of the work on checking spherical symmetry assumptions on the distribution of the $p$-dimensional random vector $Y$ has its focus on statistical tests for the null hypothesis of exact spherical symmetry. In this paper, we take a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-26 Lujia Bai , Holger Dette

We develop an analogue for sphere packing of the linear programming bounds for error-correcting codes, and use it to prove upper bounds for the density of sphere packings, which are the best bounds known at least for dimensions 4 through…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Henry Cohn , Noam Elkies

A subset $X$ in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space is called a $k$-distance set if there are exactly $k$ distinct distances between two distinct points in $X$ and a subset $X$ is called a locally $k$-distance set if for any point $x$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-10 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara

We show that the maximum number of unit distances or of diameters in a set of n points in d-dimensional Euclidean space is attained only by specific types of Lenz constructions, for all d >= 4 and n sufficiently large, depending on d. As a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-12 Konrad J Swanepoel