Möbius-invariant self-avoidance energies for non-smooth sets of arbitrary dimension and co-dimension (Q6103498)

The aim of this paper is to initiate a systematic study of a family of Möbius-invariant energies on non-smooth subsets \(\Sigma \subset \mathbb{R}^n\) of arbitrary dimension and co-dimension. Such an investigation has been carried out for other (not Möbius-invariant) self-avoiding energies such as integral Menger curvature or tangent-point energies in arbitrary dimensions. There are introduced the definitions of admissible sets and Möbius energy of such sets. The examples of admissible sets are given. Under some assumptions every admissible set with locally finite Möbius energy is an embedded Lipschitz submanifold of \(\mathbb{R}^n\). The authors also examined the conditions under which we can obtain finite energy of admissible possible unbounded set \(\Sigma \subset \mathbb{R}^n\) (unbounded sets in general may not have the finite energy).