A minimum principle for potentials with application to Chebyshev constants

DOI10.1007/S11118-017-9618-XMaRDI QIDQ2014235zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 10 August 2017

Published in Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07283

zbMATH Keywords

Chebyshev constantminimum principleRiesz potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potentials and capacities on other spaces (31C15)

Abstract: For "Riesz-like" kernels $K(x,y)=f(|x-y|)$ on $AimesA$, where $A$ is a compact $d$-regular set $Asubsetmathbb{R}^p$, we prove a minimum principle for potentials $U_K^{m}u=intK(x,y)dmu(x)$, where $mu$ is a Borel measure supported on $A$. Setting $P_K(mu)=in{f}_{yinA}{U}^{m}u(y)$, the $K$-polarization of $mu$, the principle is used to show that if $u_N$ is a sequence of measures on $A$ that converges in the weak-star sense to the measure $u$, then $P_K(u_N)o{P}_K(u)$ as $Noinfty$. The continuous Chebyshev (polarization) problem concerns maximizing $P_K(mu)$ over all probability measures $mu$ supported on $A$, while the $N$-point discrete Chebyshev problem maximizes $P_K(mu)$ only over normalized counting measures for $N$-point multisets on $A$. We prove for such kernels and sets $A$, that if $u_N$ is a sequence of $N$-point measures solving the discrete problem, then every weak-star limit measure of $u_N$ as $Noinfty$ is a solution to the continuous problem.

Review text

A compact set \(A\subset \mathbb{R}^{p}\) is called \(d\)-regular (\( 0 < d \leq p \)) if the \(d\)-dimensional Hausdorff measure of \(B(y,r)\cap A\) is comparable to \(r^{d}\) whenever \( y \in A\) and \( 0 < r < \mathrm{diam}(A)\). This paper is concerned with Riesz-like potentials of the form \(U_{f}^{\mu }(y)=\int_{A}f(\left| x-y\right| )d\mu (x)\), where \(f:(0,\infty )\rightarrow (0,\infty )\) is continuous and strictly decreasing, and the function \(t\longmapsto t^{d-\varepsilon }f(t)\) is strictly increasing on \([0,t_{\varepsilon }]\) for some \(\varepsilon \in (0,d)\) and \(t_{\varepsilon }>0\). Let \(P_{f}(\mu )=\inf_{A}U_{f}^{\mu }\). The authors establish a minimum principle for such potentials and use it to show that, if \((\nu _{N})\) is a sequence of measures on \(A\) that is weak* convergent to a measure \(\nu \), then \(P_{f}(\nu _{N})\rightarrow P_{f}(\nu )\).

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