Totally asymmetric SIC existence conjecture over finite fields

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Let a SIC be a system of d2d^2 equiangular lines, represented here by vectors over a finite field extension as in the paper. A SIC is totally asymmetric when its automorphism group is trivial. Totally asymmetric SIC existence conjecture. Totally asymmetric SICs exist in infinitely many dimensions over various finite fields. In particular, for infinitely many choices of dd, there is a modular Hadamard matrix HH of order dd with trivial Auts(H~)\operatorname{Aut}_s(\tilde{H}), and with d8modpd\equiv 8\bmod p for some prime p3mod4p\equiv3\bmod4, such that the associated SIC in Fp2d\mathbb{F}_{p^2}^d has trivial weak automorphism group. The conjecture is motivated by the empirical abundance of asymmetric Hadamard matrices and examples of totally asymmetric SICs; the abstract also formulates the weaker claim that such SICs exist in infinitely many dimensions, while the stated construction-based version remains unproved.

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Joseph W. Iverson and Dustin G. Mixon, “Asymmetric SICs over finite fields”, arXiv:2506.20778 (2025).

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