Minimum energy problems with external fields on locally compact spaces

Abstract: The paper deals with minimum energy problems in the presence of external fields on a locally compact space

X

with respect to a function kernel

k a p p a

satisfying the energy and consistency principles. For quite a general (not necessarily lower semicontinuous) external field

f

, we establish sufficient and/or necessary conditions for the existence of

l a m b d a_{A, f}

minimizing the Gauss functional [intkappa(x,y),d(muotimesmu)(x,y)+2int f,dmu] over all positive Radon measures

m u

with

m u (X) = 1

, concentrated on quite a general (not necessarily closed or bounded)

A s u b s e t X

, thereby giving an answer to a question raised by M. Ohtsuka (J. Sci. Hiroshima Univ., 1961). Such results are specified for the Riesz kernels

| x - y |^{a l p h a - n}

,

0 < a l p h a < n

, on

m a t h b b R^{n}

,

n g e q s l a n t 2

, and are illustrated by some examples. Furthermore, we provide various alternative characterizations of the minimizer

l a m b d a_{A, f}

, and as a by-product we analyze the strong and vague continuity of

l a m b d a_{A, f}

under the exhaustion of

A

by compact

K s u b s e t A

. The results obtained hold true and are new for many interesting kernels in classical and modern potential theory.

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