Complex spherical codes with two inner products

Abstract

A finite set $X$ in a complex sphere is called a complex spherical $2$-code if the number of inner products between two distinct vectors in $X$ is equal to $2$. In this paper, we characterize the tight complex spherical $2$-codes by doubly regular tournaments, or skew Hadamard matrices. We also give certain maximal 2-codes relating to skew-symmetric $D$-optimal designs. To prove them, we show the smallest embedding dimension of a tournament into a complex sphere by the multiplicity of the smallest or second-smallest eigenvalue of the Seidel matrix.

arXiv comment10 pages, to appear in European Journal of Combinatorics