Real Equiangular Tight Frames Research Articles

Frames over finite fields: Equiangular lines in orthogonal geometry

We investigate equiangular lines in finite orthogonal geometries, focusing specifically on equiangular tight frames (ETFs). In parallel with the known correspondence between real ETFs and strongly regular graphs (SRGs) that satisfy certain parameter constraints, we prove that ETFs in finite orthogonal geometries are closely aligned with a modular generalization of SRGs. The constraints in our finite field setting are weaker, and all but 18 known SRG parameters on v≤1300 vertices satisfy at least one of them. Applying our results to triangular graphs, we deduce that Gerzon's bound is attained in finite orthogonal geometries of infinitely many dimensions. We also demonstrate connections with real ETFs, and derive necessary conditions for ETFs in finite orthogonal geometries. As an application, we show that Gerzon's bound cannot be attained in a finite orthogonal geometry of dimension 5.

Bounds on Antipodal Spherical Designs with Few Angles

A finite subset $X$ on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ is called an $s$-distance set with strength $t$ if its angle set $A(X):=\{\langle \mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}\rangle : \mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}\in X, \mathbf{x}\neq\mathbf{y} \}$ has size $s$, and $X$ is a spherical $t$-design but not a spherical $(t+1)$-design. In this paper, we consider to estimate the maximum size of such antipodal set $X$ for small $s$. Motivated by the method developed by Nozaki and Suda, for each even integer $s\in[\frac{t+5}{2}, t+1]$ with $t\geq 3$, we improve the best known upper bound of Delsarte, Goethals and Seidel. We next focus on two special cases: $s=3,\ t=3$ and $s=4,\ t=5$. Estimating the size of $X$ for these two cases is equivalent to estimating the size of real equiangular tight frames (ETFs) and Levenstein-equality packings, respectively. We improve the previous estimate on the size of real ETFs and Levenstein-equality packings. This in turn gives an upper bound on $|X|$ when $s=3,\ t=3$ and $s=4,\ t=5$, respectively.

Kesten–McKay Law for Random Subensembles of Paley Equiangular Tight Frames

We apply the method of moments to prove a recent conjecture of Haikin, Zamir and Gavish concerning the distribution of the singular values of random subensembles of Paley equiangular tight frames. Our analysis applies more generally to real equiangular tight frames of redundancy 2, and we suspect similar ideas will eventually produce more general results for arbitrary choices of redundancy.

Complex equiangular tight frames and erasures

In this paper we demonstrate that there are distinct differences between real and complex equiangular tight frames (ETFs) with regards to erasures. For example, we prove that there exist arbitrarily large non-trivial complex equiangular tight frames which are optimal against three erasures, and that such frames come from a unique class of complex ETFs. In addition, we extend certain results in Bodmann and Paulsen (2005) [2] to complex vector spaces as well as show that other results regarding real ETFs are not valid for complex ETFs.

Equiangular tight frames and signature sets in groups

quiangular frames are an important class of finite dimensional frames because of their superior performance and numerous applications. The objective of this paper is to present a new tool to construct equiangular tight frames from groups. We prove that many equiangular tight frames arise from subsets of groups which we call signature sets. Subsequently, we define quasi-signature sets and examine real equiangular tight frames associated with these subsets of groups. This approach yields further results and establishes new correspondences. We extend these results to complex equiangular tight frames where the inner product between any pair of vectors is a common multiple of a cube root of unity and exhibit equiangular tight frames that arise from groups in this manner.