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A complex spherical code is a finite subset on the unit sphere in $\mathbb{C}^d$. A fundamental problem on complex spherical codes is to find upper bounds for those with prescribed inner products. In this paper, we determine the irreducible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Wei-Jiun Kao , Sho Suda , Wei-Hsuan Yu

In this article we present a unified treatment for obtaining bounds on the potential energy of codes in the general context of polynomial metric spaces (PM-spaces). The lower bounds we derive via the linear programming (LP) techniques of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Peter Boyvalenkov , Peter Dragnev , Douglas Hardin , Edward Saff , Maya Stoyanova

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

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

We present a semidefinite programming approach to bound the measures of cross-independent pairs in a bipartite graph. This can be viewed as a far-reaching extension of Hoffman's ratio bound on the independence number of a graph. As an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Sho Suda , Hajime Tanaka , Norihide Tokushige

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

Semi-infinite programs are a class of mathematical optimization problems with a finite number of decision variables and infinite constraints. As shown by Blankenship and Falk (Blankenship and Falk. "Infinitely constrained optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Stuart M. Harwood , Dimitri J. Papageorgiou , Francisco Trespalacios

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

The average kissing number of $\mathbb{R}^n$ is the supremum of the average degrees of contact graphs of packings of finitely many balls (of any radii) in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We provide an upper bound for the average kissing number based on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Maria Dostert , Alexander Kolpakov , Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho

This thesis presents results in quantum error correction within the context of finite dimensional quantum metric spaces. In classical error correction, a focal problem is the study of large codes of metric spaces. For a class of finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Rui Okada

We apply polynomial techniques (linear programming) to obtain lower and upper bounds on the covering radius of spherical designs as function of their dimension, strength, and cardinality. In terms of inner products we improve the lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Peter Boyvalenkov , Maya Stoyanova

New bounds on the cardinality of permutation codes equipped with the Ulam distance are presented. First, an integer-programming upper bound is derived, which improves on the Singleton-type upper bound in the literature for some lengths.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Faruk Göloğlu , Jüri Lember , Ago-Erik Riet , Vitaly Skachek

The linear programming method is applied to the space $\U_n(\C)$ of unitary matrices in order to obtain bounds for codes relative to the diversity sum and the diversity product. Theoretical and numerical results improving previously known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Jean Creignou , Hervé Diet

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

We consider a rate-distortion problem with side information at multiple decoders. Several upper and lower bounds have been proposed for this general problem or special cases of it. We provide an upper bound for general instances of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Sinem Unal , Aaron B. Wagner

The Delsarte linear program is used to bound the size of codes given their block length $n$ and minimal distance $d$ by taking a linear relaxation from codes to quasicodes. We study for which values of $(n,d)$ this linear program has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Rupert Li

In semidefinite programming a proposed optimal solution may be quite poor in spite of having sufficiently small residual in the optimality conditions. This issue may be framed in terms of the discrepancy between forward error (the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Stefan Sremac , Hugo J. Woerdeman , Henry Wolkowicz

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

Subspace codes form the appropriate mathematical setting for investigating the Koetter-Kschischang model of fault-tolerant network coding. The Main Problem of Subspace Coding asks for the determination of a subspace code of maximum size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-07 Haiteng Liu , Thomas Honold

We consider the following problem: given a program, find tight asymptotic bounds on the values of some variables at the end of the computation (or at any given program point) in terms of its input values. We focus on the case of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 A. M. Ben-Amram , G. W. Hamilton