Unconstrained polarization (Chebyshev) problems: basic properties and Riesz kernel asymptotics

DOI10.1007/S11118-020-09875-ZMaRDI QIDQ2072147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mircea Petrache, D. P. Hardin, E. B. Saff

Publication date 26 January 2022

Published in Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08497

zbMATH Keywords

Riesz potentialChebyshev constantmaximal Riesz polarizationunconstrained polarization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15) Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions on other spaces (31C05) Potentials and capacities on other spaces (31C15)

Abstract: We introduce and study the unconstrained polarization (or Chebyshev) problem which requires to find an $N$-point configuration that maximizes the minimum value of its potential over a set $A$ in $p$-dimensional Euclidean space. This problem is compared to the constrained problem in which the points are required to belong to the set $A$. We find that for Riesz kernels $1/|x-y{|}^s$ with $s>p-2$ the optimum unconstrained configurations concentrate close to the set $A$ and based on this fundamental fact we recover the same asymptotic value of the polarization as for the more classical constrained problem on a class of $d$-rectifiable sets. We also investigate the new unconstrained problem in special cases such as for spheres and balls. In the last section we formulate some natural open problems and conjectures.

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