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The packing density of the regular cross-polytope in Euclidean $n$-space is unknown except in dimensions $2$ and $4$ where it is 1. The only non-trivial upper bound is due to Gravel, Elser, and Kallus (2011) who proved that for $n=3$ the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-09 G. Fejes Tóth , F. Fodor , V. Vígh

We study lower bounds on the optimal error probability in classical coding over classical-quantum channels at rates below the capacity, commonly termed quantum sphere-packing bounds. Winter and Dalai have derived such bounds for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-03 Hao-Chung Cheng , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Marco Tomamichel

It is shown that the maximum size $A_2(8,6;4)$ of a binary subspace code of packet length $v=8$, minimum subspace distance $d=4$, and constant dimension $k=4$ is at most $272$. In Finite Geometry terms, the maximum number of solids in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Daniel Heinlein , Sascha Kurz

This paper derives an improved sphere-packing (ISP) bound for finite-length codes whose transmission takes place over symmetric memoryless channels. We first review classical results, i.e., the 1959 sphere-packing (SP59) bound of Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Gil Wiechman , Igal Sason

We study the concentration problem on compact two-point homogeneous spaces of finite expansions of eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator using large sieve methods. We derive upper bounds for concentration in terms of the maximum…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Philippe Jaming , Michael Speckbacher

We study subsets of the $n$-dimensional vector space over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, for odd $q$, which contain either a sphere for each radius or a sphere for each first coordinate of the center. We call such sets radii spherical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Mehdi Makhul , Audie Warren , Arne Winterhof

We provide the first known upper bounds for the packing dimension of weighted singular and weighted $\omega$-singular matrices. We also prove upper bounds for these sets when intersected with fractal subsets. The latter results, even in the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Gaurav Aggarwal , Anish Ghosh

We derive upper and lower bounds on the sum of distances of a spherical code of size $N$ in $n$ dimensions when $N\sim n^\alpha, 0<\alpha\le 2.$ The bounds are derived by specializing recent general, universal bounds on energy of spherical…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Alexander Barg , Peter Boyvalenkov , Maya Stoyanova

We briefly review known results on upper bounds for the minimal domination number $\gamma_n$ of a hypercube of dimension $n$, then present a new method for constructing dominating sets. Write $n =2^{\hat{n}}-1 +{\check{n}}$ with $0\leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Zachary DeVivo , Robert K. Hladky

Frameproof codes have been extensively studied for many years due to their application in copyright protection and their connection to extremal set theory. In this paper, we investigate upper bounds on the cardinality of wide-sense…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Yuhao Zhao , Xiande Zhang

We prove new upper bounds on the smallest size of affine blocking sets, that is, sets of points in a finite affine space that intersect every affine subspace of a fixed codimension. We show an equivalence between affine blocking sets with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Anurag Bishnoi , Jozefien D'haeseleer , Dion Gijswijt , Aditya Potukuchi

We study a concentration problem on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$ for band-limited spherical harmonics expansions using large sieve methods. We derive upper bounds for concentration in terms of the maximum Nyquist density. Our proof uses…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Michael Speckbacher , Tomasz Hrycak

Spherical codes, with a rich history spanning nearly five centuries, remain an area of active mathematical exploration and are far from being fully understood. These codes, which arise naturally in problems of geometry, combinatorics, and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 K. Mahesh Krishna

We investigate perfect codes in $\mathbb{Z}^n$ under the $\ell_p$ metric. Upper bounds for the packing radius $r$ of a linear perfect code, in terms of the metric parameter $p$ and the dimension $n$ are derived. For $p = 2$ and $n = 2, 3$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Antonio Campello , Grasiele C. Jorge , and João Strapasson , Sueli I. R. Costa

Nearly orthogonal lattices were formally defined in [4], where their applications to image compression were also discussed. The idea of ``near orthogonality" in $2$-dimensions goes back to the work of Gauss. In this paper, we focus on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Lenny Fukshansky , David Kogan

In hyperbolic space density cannot be defined by a limit as we define it in Euclidean space. We describe the local density bounds for sphere packings and we discuss the different attempts to define optimal arrangements in hyperbolic space.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Gábor Fejes Tóth , Lázló Fejes Tóth , Włodzimierz. Kuperberg

The Cohn-Elkies linear programming (LP) bound for sphere packing is known to be sharp in dimensions 8 and 24 but in no other dimension above 2. We investigate why by examining three independent necessary conditions for LP sharpness, drawn…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jian Zhou

A construction for sphere packings is introduced that is parallel to the ``anticode'' construction for codes. This provides a simple way to view Vardy's recent 20-dimensional sphere packing, and also produces packings in dimensions 22,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-26 J. H. Conway , N. J. A. Sloane

We present an extension of known semidefinite and linear programming upper bounds for spherical codes. We apply the main result for the distance distribution of a spherical code and show that this method can work effectively In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Oleg R. Musin

R. W. Hamming published the Hamming codes and the sphere packing bound in 1950. In the past 75 years, infinite families of distance-optimal linear codes over finite fields with minimum distance at most 8 with respect to the sphere packing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hao Chen , Conghui Xie , Cunsheng Ding