Symplectic Zauner's conjecture for real symplectic equiangular tight frames

Let dd be the dimension of a real symplectic vector space, and let a d×nd\times n ETF denote an equiangular tight frame in that space. Symplectic Zauner's conjecture. There exists a d×nd\times n ETF in real symplectic space if and only if

n={dif d0 mod 4 or d=2,d+1if d2 mod 4.n = \begin{cases} d & \text{if }d\equiv 0 \text{ mod }4 \text{ or } d = 2, \\ d+1 & \text{if }d\equiv 2 \text{ mod }4. \end{cases}

The preceding theorem proves the necessary direction, so the conjecture reduces to existence in the listed cases. It is presented as the symplectic analogue of Zauner's conjecture; the supplied text does not report whether the remaining sufficiency direction is known.

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Kean Fallon, “Equiangular tight frames in real symplectic space: Zauner's conjecture and the skew Hadamard conjecture”, arXiv:2509.14463 (2025).

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