Highly symmetric lines

Abstract

A generalization of highly symmetric frames is presented by considering also projective stabilizers of frame vectors. This allows construction of highly symmetric line systems and study of highly symmetric frames in a more unified manner. Construction of highly symmetric line systems involves computation of twisted spherical functions associated with finite groups. Further generalizations include definition of highly symmetric systems of subspaces. We give several examples which illustrate our approach including 3 new kissing configurations which improve lower bounds on the kissing number in d = 10, 11, 14 to 510, 592 and 1932 respectively.

A note on five dimensional kissing arrangements

“…This is a challenging open problem, called the kissing number problem in geometry. For background and references we refer the reader to [1], [2], [3], and [9].…”