Equidistribution estimates for Fekete points on complex manifolds (Q252681)

When \(L\) is a line bundle with smooth Hermitian metric \(\phi\) over a compact complex manifold~\(X\), a Fekete configuration for \((L,\phi)\) is a set of points of~\(X\) that is extremal with respect to the space of global holomorphic sections of~\(L\). More precisely, if \(s_{1}\), \(\ldots\), \(s_{N}\) is a basis of the global sections, then a Fekete configuration \(x_{1}\), \(\ldots\), \(x_{N}\) maximizes the pointwise norm \(|\det(s_{j}(x_{k}))|_{\phi}\). The authors show that if the line bundle \((L,\phi)\) is positive, then when \(k\to \infty\), the Fekete configurations for \((L^{k}, k\phi)\) become equidistributed on~\(X\). This theorem was previously obtained in more generality but with less precision in a seminal paper of \textit{R. Berman} et al. [Acta Math. 207, No. 1, 1--27 (2011; Zbl 1241.32030)]. Part of the originality of the present paper consists in quantitative results showing that the discrepancy between the Fekete points and the limiting measure has order \(1/\sqrt{k}\). The new approach to the problem is motivated by an article of \textit{S. Nitzan} and \textit{A. Olevskii} [C. R., Math., Acad. Sci. Paris 350, No. 9--10, 509--512 (2012; Zbl 1248.41010)] and by the second author's joint work with \textit{J. Marzo} [Constr. Approx. 32, No. 3, 513--521 (2010; Zbl 1203.41003)], which demonstrates that Fekete arrays can be perturbed to produce either sampling arrays or interpolation arrays. The authors' interesting study of these arrays provides density conditions by analyzing Landau's concentration operator to measure the local dimension of the sections of the line bundle. In particular, the authors completely characterize sampling arrays and interpolation arrays for the case of positive line bundles over compact Riemann surfaces. In a more general setting, they show that for a semipositive line bundle over a compact projective manifold, if there is a point where the metric has strictly positive curvature, then there are no arrays that are simultaneously sampling and interpolation.