LeVeque type inequalities and discrepancy estimates for minimal energy configurations on spheres (Q979043)

17 years after the publication of the famous Erdős-Turán discrepancy inequality, \textit{W. J. LeVeque} [Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 8, 22--30 (1965; Zbl 0136.33901)] established an upper bound for the ``star discrepancy'' \(D^*(N)\) of a set of \(N\) points of the unit sphere of \(\mathbb R^2\). The authors of the paper under review develop LeVeque type lower and upper bounds for the discrepancy between the rotationally invariant probability measure and the normalized counting measure of the unit sphere in \(\mathbb R^{d+1}\) \((d\geq 1)\). These inequalities are then used for the estimation of the discrepancy of the normalized counting measures associated with minimal energy configurations.