On spherical designs obtained from $Q$-polynomial association schemes

Sho Suda

Published 2009-10-24Version 1

We characterize that the image of the embedding of the $Q$-polynomial association scheme into eigenspace by primitive idempotent $E_1$ is a spherical $t$-design in terms of the Krein numbers. And we show that the strengths of $P$- and $Q$-polynomial schemes as spherical designs are bounded by constant.