The linear-programming improvement conjecture for Paley graph clique bounds

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Let GpG_p be the Paley graph for a prime p≡1 (mod⁡4)p\equiv 1~(\operatorname{mod}4), let LS⁡(p)\operatorname{LS}(p) denote the linear programming bound obtained in the paper, and let HP⁡(p)\operatorname{HP}(p) denote the Hanson--Petridis bound. Linear-programming improvement conjecture. For infinitely many primes p≡1 (mod⁡4)p\equiv 1~(\operatorname{mod}4), one has

LS⁡(p)<⌊HP⁡(p)⌋.\operatorname{LS}(p)<\lfloor \operatorname{HP}(p)\rfloor.

The numerical experiments suggest that this linear programming bound sometimes improves on the best known closed-form Hanson--Petridis bound; proving infinitely many such improvements remains open.

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Mark Magsino, Dustin G. Mixon and Hans Parshall, “Linear programming bounds for cliques in Paley graphs”, arXiv:1907.05971 (2019).

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