On Fejes Tóth's conjectured maximizer for the sum of angles between lines

DOI10.1007/s00245-020-09745-5zbMath1478.90073arXiv2007.08698OpenAlexW3123275025MaRDI QIDQ2234322

Tongseok Lim, Robert J. McCann

Publication date: 19 October 2021

Published in: Applied Mathematics and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08698

zbMATH Keywords

projective spacespherical designsRiesz energygreat circle distancepotential energy minimizationattractive-repulsive potentialsextremal problems of distance geometrymild repulsion limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonconvex programming, global optimization (90C26) Quadratic programming (90C20) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Integration on manifolds; measures on manifolds (58C35)

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