Optimality of spherical codes via exact semidefinite programming bounds

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Main Authors: Cohn, Henry, de Laat, David, Leijenhorst, Nando
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author Cohn, Henry
de Laat, David
Leijenhorst, Nando
author_facet Cohn, Henry
de Laat, David
Leijenhorst, Nando
contents We show that the spectral embeddings of all known triangle-free strongly regular graphs are optimal spherical codes (the new cases are $56$ points in $20$ dimensions, $50$ points in $21$ dimensions, and $77$ points in $21$ dimensions), as are certain mutually unbiased basis arrangements constructed using Kerdock codes in up to $1024$ dimensions (namely, $2^{4k} + 2^{2k+1}$ points in $2^{2k}$ dimensions for $2 \le k \le 5$). As a consequence of the latter, we obtain optimality of the Kerdock binary codes of block length $64$, $256$, and $1024$, as well as uniqueness for block length $64$. We also prove universal optimality for $288$ points on a sphere in $16$ dimensions. To prove these results, we use three-point semidefinite programming bounds, for which only a few sharp cases were known previously. To obtain rigorous results, we develop improved techniques for rounding approximate solutions of semidefinite programs to produce exact optimal solutions.
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spellingShingle Optimality of spherical codes via exact semidefinite programming bounds
Cohn, Henry
de Laat, David
Leijenhorst, Nando
Metric Geometry
Information Theory
Optimization and Control
We show that the spectral embeddings of all known triangle-free strongly regular graphs are optimal spherical codes (the new cases are $56$ points in $20$ dimensions, $50$ points in $21$ dimensions, and $77$ points in $21$ dimensions), as are certain mutually unbiased basis arrangements constructed using Kerdock codes in up to $1024$ dimensions (namely, $2^{4k} + 2^{2k+1}$ points in $2^{2k}$ dimensions for $2 \le k \le 5$). As a consequence of the latter, we obtain optimality of the Kerdock binary codes of block length $64$, $256$, and $1024$, as well as uniqueness for block length $64$. We also prove universal optimality for $288$ points on a sphere in $16$ dimensions. To prove these results, we use three-point semidefinite programming bounds, for which only a few sharp cases were known previously. To obtain rigorous results, we develop improved techniques for rounding approximate solutions of semidefinite programs to produce exact optimal solutions.
title Optimality of spherical codes via exact semidefinite programming bounds
topic Metric Geometry
Information Theory
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16874