Sum-Product Bounds & an Inequality for the Kissing Number in Dimension 16

MaRDI QIDQ6428587zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrew Mendelsohn

Publication date 6 March 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07) Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity (11B30) Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06)

Abstract: We obtain an inequality for the kissing number in 16 dimensions. We do this by generalising a sum-product bound of Solymosi and Wong for quaternions to a semialgebra in dimension 16. In particular, we obtain the inequality ${\displaystyle }$k_{16}geq frac{sum_{x in mathcal{R}}left|mathcal{S}_{x} ight|}{left|�igcup_{x in mathcal{R}} mathcal{S}_{x} ight|}-1,${\displaystyle }$ where $k_{16}$ is the 16-dimensional kissing number, and $S_x$ and $mathcalR$ are sets defined below. Along the way we also obtain a sum-product bound for subsets of the octonions which are closed under taking inverses, using a similar strategy to that used for the quaternions. We use the fact that the kissing number in eight dimensions is 240 to achieve the result. Namely, we obtain the bound ${\displaystyle }$operatorname{max}(|mathcal{A}+mathcal{A}|,|mathcal{A}mathcal{A}|)geq frac{|mathcal{A}|^{4/3}}{(1928cdotlceil operatorname{log}|mathcal{A}| ceil)^{1/3}},${\displaystyle }$ where $mathcalA$ is a finite set of octonions such that if $xinmathcalA$, $x^{-1}inmathcalA$ also.

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