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Linear programming bounds provide an elegant method to prove optimality and uniqueness of an (n,N,t) spherical code. However, this method does not apply to the parameters (4,10,1/6). We use semidefinite programming bounds instead to show…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-15 Christine Bachoc , Frank Vallentin

In this paper, we give some new lower bounds for the kissing number of $\ell_p$-spheres. These results improve the previous work due to Xu (2007). Our method is based on coding theory.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Chengfei Xie , Gennian Ge

We derive general linear programming bounds for spherical $(k,k)$-designs. This includes lower bounds for the minimum cardinality and lower and upper bounds for minimum and maximum energy, respectively. As applications we obtain a universal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Peter Boyvalenkov

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 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

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

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

Finding the largest code with a given minimum distance is one of the most basic problems in coding theory. In this paper, we study the linear programming bound for codes in the Lee metric. We introduce refinements on the linear programming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Helena Astola , Ioan Tabus

It has been shown that the maximum stable set problem in some infinite graphs, and the kissing number problem in particular, reduces to a minimization problem over the cone of copositive kernels. Optimizing over this infinite dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Olga Kuryatnikova , Juan C. Vera

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

Codes in finite projective spaces equipped with the subspace distance have been proposed for error control in random linear network coding. Here we collect the present knowledge on lower and upper bounds for binary subspace codes for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Daniel Heinlein , Sascha Kurz

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 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

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

Pfender \textit{[J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, 2007]} provided a one-line proof for a variant of the Delsarte-Goethals-Seidel-Kabatianskii-Levenshtein upper bound for spherical codes, which offers an upper bound for the celebrated…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 K. Mahesh Krishna

We adapt linear programming methods from sphere packings to closed hyperbolic surfaces and obtain new upper bounds on their systole, their kissing number, the first positive eigenvalue of their Laplacian, the multiplicity of their first…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Maxime Fortier Bourque , Bram Petri

We consider the coding problem in the Stiefel manifold with chordal distance. After considering various low-dimensional instances of this problem, we use Rankin's bounds on spherical codes to prove upper bounds on the minimum distance of a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-03 John Jasper , Nathan Mankovich , Dustin G. Mixon

We study a primal-dual interior point method specialized to clustered low-rank semidefinite programs requiring high precision numerics, which arise from certain multivariate polynomial (matrix) programs through sums-of-squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Nando Leijenhorst , David de Laat

We study the maximum cardinality problem of a set of few distances in the Hamming and Johnson spaces. We formulate semidefinite programs for this problem and extend the 2011 works by Barg-Musin and Musin-Nozaki. As our main result, we find…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Alexander Barg , Ching-Yi Lai , Pin-Chieh Tseng , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We study asymptotic lower and upper bounds for the sizes of constant dimension codes with respect to the subspace or injection distance, which is used in random linear network coding. In this context we review known upper bounds and show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Daniel Heinlein , Sascha Kurz