Mathematics – Metric Geometry
Scientific paper
2009-01-08
European Congress of Mathematics Amsterdam, 14-18 July, 2008, 115-134, EMS Publishing House, 2010
Mathematics
Metric Geometry
Talk at the Fifth European Congress of Mathematics, Amsterdam,14-18 July 2008
Scientific paper
I. J. Schoenberg proved that a function is positive definite in the unit sphere if and only if this function is a nonnegative linear combination of Gegenbauer polynomials. This fact play a crucial role in Delsarte's method for finding bounds for the density of sphere packings on spheres and Euclidean spaces. One of the most excited applications of Delsarte's method is a solution of the kissing number problem in dimensions 8 and 24. However, 8 and 24 are the only dimensions in which this method gives a precise result. For other dimensions (for instance, three and four) the upper bounds exceed the lower. We have found an extension of the Delsarte method that allows to solve the kissing number problem (as well as the one-sided kissing number problem) in dimensions three and four. In this paper we also will discuss the maximal cardinalities of spherical two-distance sets. Using the so-called polynomial method and Delsarte's method these cardinalities can be determined for all dimensions $n<40$. Recently, were found extensions of Schoenberg's theorem for multivariate positive-definite functions. Using these extensions and semidefinite programming can be improved some upper bounds for spherical codes.
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