On the maximal product of distances between points on a sphere

DOI10.1007/BF02986850MaRDI QIDQ1366360zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Dubickas

Publication date 30 October 1997

Published in Lithuanian Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02986850

zbMATH Keywords

distributions on the spheremaximal product of distancespackings on the spherepoints on the unit sphereproducts of linear forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Products of linear forms (11H46) Minima of forms (11H50) Irregularities of distribution, discrepancy (11K38) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Review text

For a set \(\{x_1, \dots, x_n\}\) of \(n\) points on the unit sphere \(S^2= \{x\in \mathbb{R}^n \mid|x|=1\}\), let \(M_n\) be the maximum of the product of their mutual euclidean distances. The determination of \(M_n\) has various mathematical and nonmathematical applications, and \(\lim M_n^{2/n(n-1)}\) for \(n\to\infty\) is called the transfinite diameter of \(S^2\). The author gives an upper bound for \(M_n\) and a lower bound for the distance of two points of the extremal (and not necessarily unique) spherical distribution.

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