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The set of points in a metric space is called an $s$-distance set if pairwise distances between these points admit only $s$ distinct values. Two-distance spherical sets with the set of scalar products $\{\alpha, -\alpha\}$,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Alexey Glazyrin , Wei-Hsuan Yu

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

A set of lines in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is called equiangular if the angle between each pair of lines is the same. We address the question of determining the maximum size of equiangular line sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$, using semidefinite programming…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Alexander Barg , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We establish upper bounds for the size of two-distance sets in Euclidean space and spherical two-distance sets. The main recipe for obtaining upper bounds is the spectral method. We construct Seidel matrices to encode the distance relations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Wei-Chun Chen , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We show that the maximum cardinality of an equiangular line system in 14 and 16 dimensions is 28 and 40, respectively, thereby solving a longstanding open problem. We also improve the upper bounds on the cardinality of equiangular line…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Gary R. W. Greaves , Jeven Syatriadi , Pavlo Yatsyna

Line systems passing through the origin of the $d$ dimensional Euclidean space admitting exactly two distinct angles are called biangular. It is shown that the maximum cardinality of biangular lines is at least $2(d-1)(d-2)$, and this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Mikhail Ganzhinov , Ferenc Szöllősi

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

We show that the maximum cardinality of an equiangular line system in 17 dimensions is 48, thereby solving a longstanding open problem. Furthermore, by giving an explicit construction, we improve the lower bound on the maximum cardinality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Gary R. W. Greaves , Jeven Syatriadi , Pavlo Yatsyna

A set of lines through the origin in Euclidean space is called equiangular when any pair of lines from the set intersects with each other at a common angle. We study the maximum size of equiangular lines in Euclidean space and use graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Yen-chi Roger Lin , Wei-Hsuan Yu

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

As a generalization of equiangular lines, equiangular subspaces were first systematically studied by Balla, Dr\"{a}xler, Keevash and Sudakov in 2017. In this paper, we extend their work to $s$-distance subspaces, i.e., to sets of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-13 LiXia Wang , Ke Ye

We derive a procedure for computing an upper bound on the number of equiangular lines in various Euclidean vector spaces by generalizing the classical pillar decomposition developed by (Lemmens and Seidel, 1973); namely, we use linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Emily J. King , Xiaoxian Tang

A set S of unit vectors in n-dimensional Euclidean space is called spherical two-distance set, if there are two numbers a and b, and inner products of distinct vectors of S are either a or b. The largest cardinality g(n) of spherical…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Oleg R. Musin

Solving a longstanding problem on equiangular lines, we determine, for each given fixed angle and in all sufficiently large dimensions, the maximum number of lines pairwise separated by the given angle. Fix $0 < \alpha < 1$. Let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Zilin Jiang , Jonathan Tidor , Yuan Yao , Shengtong Zhang , Yufei Zhao

We compute the second and third levels of the Lasserre hierarchy for the spherical finite distance problem. A connection is used between invariants in representations of the orthogonal group and representations of the general linear group,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-06 David de Laat , Fabrício Caluza Machado , Willem de Muinck Keizer

In this paper, claims by Lemmens and Seidel in 1973 about equiangular sets of lines with angle $1/5$ are proved by carefully analyzing pillar decompositions, with the aid of the uniqueness of two-graphs on $276$ vertices. The Neumann…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Yen-chi Roger Lin , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We determine the maximum number $N_\alpha(d)$ of equiangular lines with fixed angle $\arccos\alpha$ for $\alpha = 1/(1+2\sqrt2)$ in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space: $2,3,4,6,8,10,14,15,16,17,18,20,22$ for $d \in \{2,\dots,14\}$, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Theodore Gossett , Zilin Jiang , Adam Teets , Zoe Wellner

A spherical two-distance set is a finite collection of unit vectors in $\reals^n$ such that the set of distances between any two distinct vectors has cardinality two. We use the semidefinite programming method to compute improved estimates…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-24 Alexander Barg , Wei-Hsuan Yu

An $L$-spherical code is a set of Euclidean unit vectors whose pairwise inner products belong to the set $L$. We show, for a fixed $\alpha,\beta>0$, that the size of any $[-1,-\beta]\cup\{\alpha\}$-spherical code is at most linear in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Boris Bukh

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
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