On the logarithmic energy of points on S^2

DOI10.1007/S11854-022-0225-4MaRDI QIDQ2680334zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Steinerberger

Publication date 29 December 2022

Published in Journal d'Analyse Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04630

zbMATH Keywords

extreme valueslogarithmic energy of points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potentials and capacities on other spaces (31C15)

Review text

This article is concerned with the study of the smallest value of the energy \[ \mathcal{E}_{\log}(n)=\sum_{i, j=1, i\neq y}^n \log\frac{1}{\|x_i-x_j\|}, \] where \(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n\) lie on the unit sphere \(\mathbb{S}^2\subset \mathbb{R}^3\). The author provides a simple renormalization approach that results in a purely local problem involving superpositions of Gaussians. Connections and improvements on recent results in the study of \(\mathcal{E}_{\log}\) are presented.

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