Improved Delsarte bounds for spherical codes in small dimensions

Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1133-1147

  Pfender, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kissing number; Linear programming bound; Spherical codes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250803846     PISSN: 00973165     EISSN: 10960899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcta.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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