Jiang et al.'s asymptotic conjecture for spherical two-distance sets

Let 1β<0α<1-1 \leq \beta < 0 \leq \alpha < 1. A spherical two-distance set in Rd\mathbb{R}^d is a collection of unit vectors whose pairwise inner products lie in {α,β}\{\alpha,\beta\}. Let Nα,β(d)N_{\alpha,\beta}(d) be the maximum size of such a set, and define

λ=1ααβ,p=αβ+1.\lambda = \frac{1-\alpha}{\alpha-\beta}, \qquad p = \left\lfloor-\frac{\alpha}{\beta}\right\rfloor+1.

For pN+p\in\mathbb{N}^+ and λ>0\lambda>0, let Gp(λ)\mathcal{G}_p(\lambda) be the relevant family of pp-colorable signed graphs and define

kp(λ)=inf{Gmult(λ,G):GGp(λ)},k_p(\lambda)=\inf\left\{\frac{|G|}{\operatorname{mult}(-\lambda,G)}:G\in\mathcal{G}_p(\lambda)\right\},

where mult(λ,G)\operatorname{mult}(-\lambda,G) is the multiplicity of λ-\lambda as an eigenvalue of GG. Jiang et al.'s asymptotic conjecture.

Nα,β(d)={kp(λ)dkp(λ)1+o(d)if kp(λ)<,d+o(d)otherwise.N_{\alpha,\beta}(d)= \begin{cases} \dfrac{k_p(\lambda)d}{k_p(\lambda)-1}+o(d) & \text{if }k_p(\lambda)<\infty,\\ d+o(d) & \text{otherwise}. \end{cases}

This conjecture predicts the asymptotically optimal size of spherical two-distance sets outside the equiangular case. The limit is known in some regimes, including p2p\leq 2 or λ<λ\lambda<\lambda^*, but the general case remains open.

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Primary source

Zilin Jiang and Zhiyu Wang, “On the smallest eigenvalues of 3-colorable graphs”, arXiv:2505.03014 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2111.10366.

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