Sharpness conjecture for the lattice three-point bound in dimension 4
Sharpness conjecture for the lattice three-point bound in dimension 4
A lattice packing in 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 . This conjecture is motivated by the agreement of the bound with the density of the lattice to five decimal places; the detailed function-theoretic formulation below specifies what a sharp certificate would require.
There exists a Schwartz function satisfying , , the stated negativity condition away from the origin on the admissible region, for all , and vanishing on and on , where and is its dual lattice. The existence of such a function would give a sharp certificate for the dimension- lattice three-point bound.
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Primary source
Henry Cohn, David de Laat and Andrew Salmon, “Three-point bounds for sphere packing”, arXiv:2206.15373 (2022).
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