Sharpness conjecture for the lattice three-point bound in dimension 4

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A lattice packing in R4\mathbb{R}^4 has density bounded above by the lattice three-point bound, obtained from a semidefinite-programming formulation of the three-point bound. Sharpness conjecture. The second three-point bound for lattice packing is sharp in dimension 44. This conjecture is motivated by the agreement of the bound with the density of the D4D_4 lattice to five decimal places; the detailed function-theoretic formulation below specifies what a sharp certificate would require.

There exists a Schwartz function f ⁣:R4×R4Rf \colon \mathbb{R}^4 \times \mathbb{R}^4 \to \mathbb{R} satisfying f(0,0)=1f(0,0)=1, f^(0,0)=4\widehat{f}(0,0)=4, the stated negativity condition away from the origin on the admissible region, f^(x,y)0\widehat{f}(x,y)\geq 0 for all x,yx,y, and vanishing on D4×D4D_4\times D_4 and on D4×D4D_4^*\times D_4^*, where D4={xZ4:x1+x2+x3+x4 is even}D_4=\{x\in\mathbb{Z}^4:x_1+x_2+x_3+x_4\text{ is even}\} and D4D_4^* is its dual lattice. The existence of such a function would give a sharp certificate for the dimension-44 lattice three-point bound.

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Henry Cohn, David de Laat and Andrew Salmon, “Three-point bounds for sphere packing”, arXiv:2206.15373 (2022).

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