New upper bounds for spherical codes and packings

MaRDI QIDQ6332133zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Naser T. Sardari, Masoud Zargar

Publication date 1 January 2020

Abstract: We improve the previously best known upper bounds on the sizes of $heta$-spherical codes for every $heta<het{a}^{\ast }approx62.997^{circ}$ at least by a factor of $0.4325$, in sufficiently high dimensions. Furthermore, for sphere packing densities in dimensions $ngeq2000$ we have an improvement at least by a factor of $0.4325+frac51n$. Our method also breaks many non-numerical sphere packing density bounds in smaller dimensions. This is the first such improvement for each dimension since the work of Kabatyanskii and Levenshtein cite{KL} and its later improvement by Levenshtein cite{Leven79}. Novelties of this paper include the analysis of triple correlations, usage of the concentration of mass in high dimensions, and the study of the spacings between the roots of Jacobi polynomials.

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