Exact Completeness of LP Hierarchies for Linear Codes
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Determining the maximum size A_2(n,d) of a binary code of blocklength n and distance d remains an elusive open question even when restricted to the important class of linear codes. Recently, two linear programming hierarchies extending Delsarte's LP were independently proposed to upper bound A_2^Lin(n,d) (the analogue of A_2(n,d) for linear codes). One of these hierarchies, by the authors, was shown to be approximately complete in the sense that the hierarchy converges to A_2^Lin(n,d) as the level grows beyond n^2. Despite some structural similarities, not even approximate completeness was known for the other hierarchy by Loyfer and Linial. In this work, we prove that both hierarchies recover the exact value of A_2^Lin(n,d) at level n. We also prove that at this level the polytope of Loyfer and Linial is integral.Even though these hierarchies seem less powerful than general hierarchies such as Sum-of-Squares, we show that they have enough structure to yield exact completeness via pseudoprobabilities.
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