English
Related papers

Related papers: New upper bounds on sphere packings I

200 papers

The density of a code is the fraction of the coding space covered by packing balls centered around the codewords. This paper investigates the density of codes in the complex Stiefel and Grassmann manifolds equipped with the chordal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Renaud-Alexandre Pitaval , Lu Wei , Olav Tirkkonen , Camilla Hollanti

Let $A(n,d,w)$ be the largest possible size of an $(n,d,w)$ constant-weight binary code. By adding new constraints to Delsarte linear programming, we obtain twenty three new upper bounds on $A(n,d,w)$ for $n \leq 28$. The used techniques…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-26 Byung Gyun Kang , Hyun Kwang Kim , Phan Thanh Toan

Delsarte's method and its extensions allow to consider the upper bound problem for codes in 2-point-homogeneous spaces as a linear programming problem with perhaps infinitely many variables, which are the distance distribution. We show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-01-07 Oleg R. Musin

It is shown that the maximum size of a binary subspace code of packet length $v=6$, minimum subspace distance $d=4$, and constant dimension $k=3$ is $M=77$; in Finite Geometry terms, the maximum number of planes in $\operatorname{PG}(5,2)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Thomas Honold , Michael Kiermaier , Sascha Kurz

Whereas many results are known about thresholds for ensembles of low-density parity-check codes under message-passing iterative decoding, this is not the case for linear programming decoding. Towards closing this knowledge gap, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Pascal O. Vontobel , Ralf Koetter

We show that in any $d$-dimensional real normed space, unit balls can be packed with density at least \[\frac{(1-o(1))d\log d}{2^{d+1}},\] improving a result of Schmidt from 1958 by a logarithmic factor and generalizing the recent result of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Carl Schildkraut

Several new applications and a number of new mathematical techniques have increased the research on error-correcting codes in the Lee metric in the last decade. In this work we consider several coding problems and constructions of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Tuvi Etzion , Alexander Vardy , Eitan Yaakobi

It is commonly believed that the most efficient way to pack a finite number of equal-sized spheres is by arranging them tightly in a cluster. However, mathematicians have conjectured that a linear arrangement may actually result in the…

In this paper, we study binary constrained codes that are resilient to bit-flip errors and erasures. In our first approach, we compute the sizes of constrained subcodes of linear codes. Since there exist well-known linear codes that achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Navin Kashyap

The problem of packing equal spheres in a spherical container is a classic global optimization problem, which has attracted enormous studies in academia and found various applications in industry. This problem is computationally…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Jianrong Zhou , Shuo Ren , Kun He , Yanli Liu , Chu-Min Li

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 make four contributions to the theory of optimal subspace packings and equi-isoclinic subspaces: (1) a new lower bound for block coherence, (2) an exact count of equi-isoclinic subspaces of even dimension $r$ in $\mathbb{R}^{2r+1}$ with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Joseph W. Iverson , Kaysie Rose O

Sphere packing bounds (SPBs) ---with prefactors that are polynomial in the block length--- are derived for codes on two families of memoryless channels using Augustin's method: (possibly non-stationary) memoryless channels with (possibly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Baris Nakiboglu

Error bounds have been studied for more than seventy years, beginning with the seminal result of Hoffman (1952) [{\it J. Res. Natl. Bur. Standards}, 49 (1952), 263--265], which establishes an upper bound for the distance from an arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Zhou Wei , Michel Thera , Jen-Chih Yao

We have formulated the problem of generating periodic dense paritcle packings as an optimization problem called the Adaptive Shrinking Cell (ASC) formulation [S. Torquato and Y. Jiao, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 80}, 041104 (2009)]. Because the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-15 Sal Torquato , Yang Jiao

We study the problem of compression for the purpose of similarity identification, where similarity is measured by the mean square Euclidean distance between vectors. While the asymptotical fundamental limits of the problem - the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Fabian Steiner , Steffen Dempfle , Amir Ingber , Tsachy Weissman

If a collection of identical particles is poured into a container, different shapes will fill to different densities. But what is the shape that fills a container as close as possible to a pre-specified, desired density? We demonstrate a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-18 Marc Z. Miskin , Heinrich M. Jaeger

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

Using combinatorial arguments, we determine an upper bound on achievable rates of stabilizer codes used over the quantum erasure channel. This allows us to recover the no-cloning bound on the capacity of the quantum erasure channel, R is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Nicolas Delfosse , Gilles Zémor

The aim of this paper is to highlight recent progress in using conic optimization methods to study geometric packing problems. We will look at four geometric packing problems of different kinds: two on the unit sphere -- the kissing number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Frank Vallentin