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Let $X$ be a finite set in a complex sphere of $d$ dimension. Let $D(X)$ be the set of usual inner products of two distinct vectors in $X$. A set $X$ is called a complex spherical $s$-code if the cardinality of $D(X)$ is $s$ and $D(X)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Hiroshi Nozaki , Sho Suda

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 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

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a powerful framework from convex optimization that has striking potential for data science applications. This paper develops a provably correct randomized algorithm for solving large, weakly constrained SDP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Alp Yurtsever , Joel A. Tropp , Olivier Fercoq , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

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 semidefinite program (SDP) is a particular kind of convex optimization problem with applications in operations research, combinatorial optimization, quantum information science, and beyond. In this work, we propose variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Dhrumil Patel , Patrick J. Coles , Mark M. Wilde

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

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

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

We study the problem of determining the maximum size of a spherical two-distance set with two fixed angles (one acute and one obtuse) in high dimensions. Let $N_{\alpha,\beta}(d)$ denote the maximum number of unit vectors in $\mathbb R^d$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Zilin Jiang , Jonathan Tidor , Yuan Yao , Shengtong Zhang , Yufei Zhao

Packing problems in discrete geometry can be modeled as finding independent sets in infinite graphs where one is interested in independent sets which are as large as possible. For finite graphs one popular way to compute upper bounds for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 David de Laat , Frank Vallentin

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a fundamental class of convex optimization problems with diverse applications in mathematics, engineering, machine learning, and related disciplines. This paper investigates the application of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Zilong Cui , Ran Gu

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 fundamental problem in quantum coding theory is to determine the maximum size of quantum codes of given block length and distance. A recent work introduced bounds based on semidefinite programming, strengthening the well-known quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Gerard Anglès Munné , Felix Huber

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are a class of optimisation problems that find application in numerous areas of physics, engineering and mathematics. Semidefinite programming is particularly suited to problems in quantum physics and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Paul Skrzypczyk , Daniel Cavalcanti

In this paper, we explore the application of semidefinite programming to the realm of quantum codes, specifically focusing on codeword stabilized (CWS) codes with entanglement assistance. Notably, we utilize the isotropic subgroup of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Ching-Yi Lai , Pin-Chieh Tseng , Wei-Hsuan Yu

Let $A(n,d)$ (respectively $A(n,d,w)$) be the maximum possible number of codewords in a binary code (respectively binary constant-weight $w$ code) of length $n$ and minimum Hamming distance at least $d$. By adding new linear constraints to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-17 Hyun Kwang Kim , Phan Thanh Toan

A finite collection of unit vectors $S \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is called a spherical two-distance set if there are two numbers $a$ and $b$ such that the inner products of distinct vectors from $S$ are either $a$ or $b$. We prove that if $a\ne…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-26 Alexander Barg , Alexei Glazyrin , Kasso Okoudjou , Wei-Hsuan Yu

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

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