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We develop a framework for obtaining linear programming bounds for spherical codes whose inner products belong to a prescribed subinterval \([\ell ,s]\) of \([-\,1,1)\). An intricate relationship between Levenshtein-type upper bounds on cardinality of codes with inner products in \([\ell ,s]\) and lower bounds on the potential energy (for absolutely monotone interactions) for codes with inner products in \([\ell ,1)\) (when the cardinality of the code is kept fixed) is revealed and explained. Thereby, we obtain a new extension of Levenshtein bounds for such codes. The universality of our bounds is exhibited by a unified derivation and their validity for a wide range of codes and potential functions.
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The authors thank Konstantin Delchev, Tom Hanson, and Nikola Sekulov for their independent computational work on Conjecture 4.2 for small values of n and k. P. G. Boyvalenkov and M. M. Stoyanova: the research of these authors was supported, in part, by a Bulgarian NSF Contract DN02/2-2016. P. D. Dragnev: the research of this author was supported, in part, by a Simons Foundation Grant No. 282207. D. P. Hardin and E. B. Saff: the research of these authors was supported, in part, by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-1516400.
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Boyvalenkov, P.G., Dragnev, P.D., Hardin, D.P. et al. On spherical codes with inner products in a prescribed interval. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 87, 299–315 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-018-0524-z
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