Universal optimality of $T$-avoiding spherical codes and designs

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Main Authors: Boyvalenkov, P. G., Cherkashin, D. D., Dragnev, P. D.
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Published: 2025
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author Boyvalenkov, P. G.
Cherkashin, D. D.
Dragnev, P. D.
author_facet Boyvalenkov, P. G.
Cherkashin, D. D.
Dragnev, P. D.
contents Given an open set $T\subset [-1,1)$, we introduce the concepts of $T$-avoiding spherical codes and designs, that is, spherical codes that have no inner products in the set $T$. We show that certain codes found in the minimal vectors of the Leech lattice, as well as the minimal vectors of the Barnes--Wall lattice and codes derived from strongly regular graphs, are universally optimal in the restricted class of $T$-avoiding codes. We also extend a result of Delsarte--Goethals--Seidel about codes with three inner products $α, β, γ$ (in our terminology $(α,β)$-avoiding $γ$-codes). Parallel to the notion of tight spherical designs, we also derive that these codes are minimal (tight) $T$-avoiding spherical designs of fixed dimension and strength. In some cases, we also find that codes under consideration have maximal cardinality in their $T$-avoiding class for given dimension and minimum distance.
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spellingShingle Universal optimality of $T$-avoiding spherical codes and designs
Boyvalenkov, P. G.
Cherkashin, D. D.
Dragnev, P. D.
Combinatorics
Information Theory
Metric Geometry
05B30 (Primary), 52C17 (secondary)
Given an open set $T\subset [-1,1)$, we introduce the concepts of $T$-avoiding spherical codes and designs, that is, spherical codes that have no inner products in the set $T$. We show that certain codes found in the minimal vectors of the Leech lattice, as well as the minimal vectors of the Barnes--Wall lattice and codes derived from strongly regular graphs, are universally optimal in the restricted class of $T$-avoiding codes. We also extend a result of Delsarte--Goethals--Seidel about codes with three inner products $α, β, γ$ (in our terminology $(α,β)$-avoiding $γ$-codes). Parallel to the notion of tight spherical designs, we also derive that these codes are minimal (tight) $T$-avoiding spherical designs of fixed dimension and strength. In some cases, we also find that codes under consideration have maximal cardinality in their $T$-avoiding class for given dimension and minimum distance.
title Universal optimality of $T$-avoiding spherical codes and designs
topic Combinatorics
Information Theory
Metric Geometry
05B30 (Primary), 52C17 (secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13906