Electronic Issue "Scientific Research"

We investigate the structure of spherical 5-designs of relatively small cardinalities. We obtain some bounds on the extreme inner products of such designs. As a result, in 42 cases we prove nonexistence of designs of corresponding parameters. Our approach can be applied for other strengths and cardinalities.

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