A Family of Optimal Packings in Grassmannian Manifolds

  • Authors:
  • P. W. Shor;N. J. A. Sloane

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Sciences Research, AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971.;Information Sciences Research, AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971.

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A remarkable coincidence has led to the discovery of a family ofpackings of m^2 + m - 2 m/2-dimensional subspaces ofm-dimensional space, whenever m is a power of 2. These packings meet the“orthoplex bound” and are therefore optimal.