Complex Hadamard matrices and Equiangular Tight Frames

In this paper we give a new construction of parametric families of complex Hadamard matrices of square orders, and connect them to equiangular tight frames. The results presented here generalize some of the recent ideas of Bodmann et al. and extend the list of known equiangular tight frames. In particular, a (36,21) frame coming from a nontrivial cube root signature matrix is obtained for the first time.Comment: 6 pages, contribution to the 16th ILAS conference, Pisa, 201

Complex Hadamard matrices of order 6: a four-parameter family

In this paper we construct a new, previously unknown four-parameter family of complex Hadamard matrices of order 6, the entries of which are described by algebraic functions of roots of various sextic polynomials. We conjecture that the new, generic family G together with Karlsson's degenerate family K and Tao's spectral matrix S form an exhaustive list of complex Hadamard matrices of order 6. Such a complete characterization might finally lead to the solution of the famous MUB-6 problem.Comment: 17 pages; Contribution to the workshop "Quantum Physics in higher dimensional Hilbert Spaces", Traunkirchen, Austria, July 201

A note on the existence of BH(19,6) matrices

In this note we utilize a non-trivial block approach due to M. Petrescu to exhibit a Butson-type complex Hadamard matrix of order 19, composed of sixth roots of unity.Comment: 3 pages, preprin

A further look into combinatorial orthogonality

Strongly quadrangular matrices have been introduced in the study of the combinatorial properties of unitary matrices. It is known that if a (0, 1)-matrix supports a unitary then it is strongly quadrangular. However, the converse is not necessarily true. In this paper, we fully classify strongly quadrangular matrices up to degree 5. We prove that the smallest strongly quadrangular matrices which do not support unitaries have exactly degree 5. Further, we isolate two submatrices not allowing a (0, 1)-matrix to support unitaries.Comment: 11 pages, some typos are corrected. To appear in The Electronic journal of Linear Algebr

Hadamard matrices modulo 5

In this paper we introduce modular symmetric designs and use them to study the existence of Hadamard matrices modulo 5. We prove that there exist 5-modular Hadamard matrices of order n if and only if n != 3, 7 (mod 10) or n != 6, 11. In particular, this solves the 5-modular version of the Hadamard conjecture.Comment: 7 pages, submitted to JC

A note on five dimensional kissing arrangements

The kissing number $\tau(d)$ is the maximum number of pairwise non-overlapping unit spheres each touching a central unit sphere in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. In this note we report on how we discovered a new, previously unknown arrangement of $40$ unit spheres in dimension $5$. Our arrangement saturates the best known lower bound on $\tau(5)$, and refutes a `belief' of Cohn--Jiao--Kumar--Torquato.Comment: Workshop on Orthogonal designs and related Combinatorics, Meiji University, Toky