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A set of lines through the origin is called equiangular if every pair of lines defines the same angle, and the maximum size of an equiangular set of lines in $\mathbb{R}^n$ was studied extensively for the last 70 years. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Igor Balla , Benny Sudakov

A set of lines in $\mathbb{R}^d$ passing through the origin is called equiangular if any two lines in the set form the same angle. We proved an alternative version of the three-point semidefinite constraints developed by Bachoc and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Wei-Jiun Kao , Wei-Hsuan Yu

A set of vectors of equal norm in $\mathbb{C}^d$ represents equiangular lines if the magnitudes of the inner product of every pair of distinct vectors in the set are equal. The maximum size of such a set is $d^2$, and it is conjectured that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Jonathan Jedwab , Amy Wiebe

In this paper, we discuss maximality of Seidel matrices with a fixed largest eigenvalue. We present a classification of maximal Seidel matrices of largest eigenvalue $3$, which gives a classification of maximal equiangular lines in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Meng-Yue Cao , Jack H. Koolen , Akihiro Munemasa , Kiyoto Yoshino

A graph is called (generically) rigid in R^d if, for any choice of sufficiently generic edge lengths, it can be embedded in R^d in a finite number of distinct ways, modulo rigid transformations. Here, we deal with the problem of determining…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Stylianos C. Despotakis , Ioannis Z. Emiris

In this note, we study the maximum number $N_\alpha(d)$ of a system of equiangular lines in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with cosine $\alpha$, where $\frac{1}{\alpha}$ is not an odd positive integer. This note is motivated by a remark in a $2018$ paper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Mengyue Cao , Jack H. Koolen , Jae Young Yang

A family of lines through the origin in Euclidean space is called equiangular if any pair of lines defines the same angle. The problem of estimating the maximum cardinality of such a family in $\mathbb{R}^n$ was extensively studied for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Igor Balla , Felix Dräxler , Peter Keevash , Benny Sudakov

We give a hierarchy of $k$-point bounds extending the Delsarte-Goethals-Seidel linear programming $2$-point bound and the Bachoc-Vallentin semidefinite programming $3$-point bound for spherical codes. An optimized implementation of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 David de Laat , Fabrício Caluza Machado , Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

Answering a question of Jiang and Polyanskii as well as Jiang, Tidor, Yao, Zhang, and Zhao, we show the existence of infinitely many angles $\theta$ for which the maximum number of lines in $\mathbb R^n$ meeting at the origin with pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Carl Schildkraut

For given $\Delta>0$ and $0<\lambda<3/\sqrt{2}$, we show that the maximum multiplicity that $\lambda$ can appear as the second largest eigenvalue of a connected graph with maximum degree at most $\Delta$ is $O_{\Delta,\lambda}(1)$. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Chuanyuan Ge , Shiping Liu

In this paper, we give a new proof of the Lemmens-Seidel conjecture on the maximum number of equiangular lines with a common angle $\arccos(1/5)$. This conjecture was previously resolved by Cao, Koolen, Lin, and Yu in 2022 through an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Chuanyuan Ge , Shiping Liu

We tabulate bounds on the optimal number of mutually unbiased bases in R^d. For most dimensions d, it can be shown with relatively simple methods that either there are no real orthonormal bases that are mutually unbiased or the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Oscar Boykin , Meera Sitharam , Mohamad Tarifi , Pawel Wocjan

A polytope in a finite-dimensional normed space is subequilateral if the length in the norm of each of its edges equals its diameter. Subequilateral polytopes occur in the study of two unrelated subjects: surface energy minimizing cones and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Konrad J Swanepoel

We prove an upper bound on the number of pairwise strongly cospectral vertices in a normal Cayley graph, in terms of the multiplicities of its eigenvalues. We use this to determine an explicit bound in Cayley graphs of $\mathbb{Z}_2^d$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Arnbjörg Soffía Árnadóttir , Chris Godsil

We consider $d$-dimensional simplicial complexes which can be PL embedded in the $2d$-dimensional euclidean space. In short, we show that in any such complex, for any three vertices, the intersection of the link-complexes of the vertices is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Salman Parsa

The maximal graph Dirichlet problem asks whether there exists a spacelike graph, in a semi-Euclidean space, with a given boundary and with mean curvature everywhere zero. We prove the existence of solutions to this problem under certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Benjamin Stuart Thorpe

We consider the problem of finding the maximum number $e_d(n)$ of pairs of touching circles in a packing of $n$ congruent circles of diameter $d$ in the hyperbolic plane of curvature $-1$. In the Euclidean plane, the maximum comes from a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Ádám Sagmeister , Konrad J. Swanepoel

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

We prove that subsets of ${\Bbb R}^d$, $d \ge 4$ of large enough Hausdorff dimensions contain vertices of an equilateral triangle. It is known that additional hypotheses are needed to assure the existence of equilateral triangles in two…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Alex Iosevich , Bochen Liu

In 1973, Lemmens and Seidel posed the problem of determining the maximum number of equiangular lines in $\mathbb{R}^r$ with angle $\arccos(\alpha)$ and gave a partial answer in the regime $r \leq 1/\alpha^2 - 2$. At the other extreme where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Igor Balla