Few-cosine spherical codes and Barnes-Wall lattices

Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1211-1234

  Griess Jr , Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Association scheme; Barnes Wall lattice; Binary code; Bolt Room Wall group; Cocycle; Cohomology; Finite groups; Group extension; Spherical code; Tricosine; Universally optimal property

Indexed keywords

EID: 50649107058     PISSN: 00973165     EISSN: 10960899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcta.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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