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The problem of packing n-dimensional subspaces of m-dimensional Euclidean space such that these subspaces are as far apart as possible was introduced by Conway, Hardin and Sloane. It can be seen as a higher dimensional version of spherical codes or equiangular lines. In this paper, we first give a general construction of equiangular lines, and then present a family of equiangular lines with large size from direct product difference sets. Meanwhile, for packing higher dimensional subspaces, we give three constructions of optimal packings in Grassmannian spaces based on difference sets and Latin squares. As a consequence, we obtain many new classes of optimal Grassmannian packings.
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The authors express their gratitude to the anonymous reviewers for their detailed and constructive comments which are very helpful to the improvement of the presentation of this paper. Research supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11431003 and 61571310, Beijing Hundreds of Leading Talents Training Project of Science and Technology, and Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation.
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Zhang, T., Ge, G. Combinatorial constructions of packings in Grassmannian spaces. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 86, 803–815 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-017-0362-4
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