Integer frames (Q2834130)

Integer frames are frames whose vectors have all integer coordinates with respect to a fixed orthonormal basis for a Hilbert space. This paper focuses on the construction of such frames and is organized as follows: Section 1 is introductory. Section 2 reviews basic properties of frames that will be used in the rest of the paper. Section 3 discusses a method for constructing larger frames from those with fewer vectors or those in lower dimensions. (A somewhat related paper, dealing with Riesz bases in \(\mathbb R^d\), is [\textit{G. Kozma} and \textit{S. Nitzan}, Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 32, No. 4, 1393--1406 (2016; Zbl 1361.42030)]. This section also discusses an application concerning Hadamard matrices. Section 4 studies equal norm, tight, integer frames, in two and three dimensions. Complete results are obtained for the two-dimensional case and partial results are obtained for the three-dimensional case. Section 5 studies the case of frames having one element more than the dimension, and it is shown that the existence of frames having \(M+1\) elements in an \(M\)-dimensional space is related to the existence of \(M\)-simplexes having integer coordinates in \(M\) dimensions. Section 6 studies equal norm, tight, integer frames in general dimensions. In the seventh and last section it is shown that when dropping either the equal norm or the tight assumptions, any number of vectors in any dimensions may be obtained. The same is shown for equal norm frames that are ``nearly tight''.