“…By virtue of this optimality, ETFs find applications in wireless communication [43], compressed sensing [2], and digital fingerprinting [35]. Motivated by these applications, many ETFs were recently constructed using various mixtures of algebra and combinatorics [43,48,14,18,16,7,27,26,28,29]; see [17] for a survey. Despite this flurry of work, several problems involving ETFs (such as Zauner's conjecture) remain open, and a finite field model was recently proposed to help study these remaining problems [23,24].…”