Nonexistence of d-point simplex 3-designs

Let Δd\Delta_d denote the dd-point probability simplex, and let a simplex tt-design be a collection of points in Δd\Delta_d whose moments agree with those of the uniform simplex measure through degree tt. Nonexistence conjecture. There are no dd-point simplex 3-designs in Δd\Delta_d for d3d\geq 3. This would extend the established nonexistence result for simplex 4-designs and is motivated by the known obstruction in dimension d=3d=3 together with numerical evidence; the general case remains open.

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Victor Gonzalez Avella, Jakub Czartowski, Dardo Goyeneche and Karol Życzkowski, “Cyclic measurements and simplified quantum state tomography”, arXiv:2404.18847 (2025).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1308.3188.

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