Almost-flat fiducial conjecture for SICs in dimensions n^2+3

Let d=n2+3=pd=n^2+3=p be a prime in the specified sequence of dimensions, and let obreakΨ^=(x0,x1,,xd1)T obreak\hat{\Psi}=(x_0,x_1,\ldots,x_{d-1})^{\rm T} be an un-normalized SIC fiducial. Almost-flat fiducial conjecture. In each dimension in the sequence, there \exists an un-normalized SIC fiducial Ψ^\hat{\Psi} such that

xj={2d+1,j=0,x0eiϑj,j>0,x_j=\begin{cases}-2-\sqrt{d+1},&j=0,\sqrt{x_0e^{i\vartheta_j}},&j>0,\end{cases}

for suitable phases eiϑje^{i\vartheta_j}; equivalently, x1==xd1|x_1|=\cdots=|x_{d-1}|. The conjecture is part of a proposed construction of SICs in the prime dimensions d=n2+3d=n^2+3; the source presents it as unproved and motivated by the observed symmetries.

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Marcus Appleby, Ingemar Bengtsson, Markus Grassl, Michael Harrison and Gary McConnell, “SIC-POVMs from Stark units: Prime dimensions n^2+3”, arXiv:2112.05552 (2022).

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