We give details of the 1-1 correspondence between equiangular frames of n vectors for IR d and graphs with n vertices. This has been studied recently for tight equiangular frames because of applications to signal processing and quantum information theory. The nontight examples given here (which correspond to graphs with more than 2 eigenvalues) have the potential for similar applications, e.g., the frame corresponding to the 5-cycle graph is the unique Grassmannian frame of 5 vectors in IR 3. Further, the associated canonical tight frames have a small number of angles in many cases.
Recently, several intriguing conjectures have been proposed connecting symmetric informationally complete quantum measurements (SIC POVMs, or SICs) and algebraic number theory. These conjectures relate the SICs and their minimal defining algebraic number field. Testing or sharpening these conjectures requires that the SICs are expressed exactly, rather than as numerical approximations. While many exact solutions of SICs have been constructed previously using Gröbner bases, this method has probably been taken as far as is possible with current computer technology (except in special cases, where there are additional symmetries). Here we describe a method for converting high-precision numerical solutions into exact ones using an integer relation algorithm in conjunction with the Galois symmetries of a SIC. Using this method we have calculated 69 new exact solutions, including 9 new dimensions where previously only numerical solutions were known, which more than triples the number of known exact solutions. In some cases the solutions require number fields with degrees as high as 12,288. We use these solutions to confirm that they obey the number-theoretic conjectures and we address two questions suggested by the previous work.
The aim of this paper is to investigate symmetry properties of tight frames, with a view to constructing tight frames of orthogonal polynomials in several variables which share the symmetries of the weight function, and other similar applications. This is achieved by using representation theory to give methods for constructing tight frames as orbits of groups of unitary transformations acting on a given finite-dimensional Hilbert space. Along the way, we show that a tight frame is determined by its Gram matrix and discuss how the symmetries of a tight frame are related to its Gram matrix. We also give a complete classification of those tight frames which arise as orbits of an abelian group of symmetries.
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