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Spectral conditions for spherical two-distance sets

Combinatorics 2026-02-04 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

A set of points SS in dd-dimensional Euclidean space Rd\mathbb{R}^d is called a 2-distance set if the set of pairwise distances between the points has cardinality two. The 2-distance set is called spherical if its points lie on the unit sphere in Rd\mathbb{R}^{d}. We characterize the spherical 2-distance sets using the spectrum of the adjacency matrix of an associated graph and the spectrum of the projection of the adjacency matrix onto the orthogonal complement of the all-ones vector. We also determine the lowest dimensional space in which a given spherical 2-distance set could be represented using the graph spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2211.12582,
  title  = {Spectral conditions for spherical two-distance sets},
  author = {Iliyas Noman and Yuan Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.12582},
  year   = {2026}
}

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12 pages

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