Equilibria of three constrained point charges

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2016.03.006MaRDI QIDQ295735zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giorgi Khimshiashvili, G. Panina, Dirk Siersma

Publication date 13 June 2016

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05464

zbMATH Keywords

pitchfork bifurcationCoulomb energyEuler's buckling beamMorse points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Motion of charged particles (78A35) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15)

Abstract: We study the critical points of Coulomb energy considered as a function on configuration spaces associated with certain geometric constraints. Two settings of such kind are discussed in some detail. The first setting arises by considering polygons of fixed perimeter with freely sliding positively charged vertices. The second one is concerned with triples of positive charges constrained to three concentric circles. In each of these cases the Coulomb energy is generically a Morse function. We describe the minima and other stationary points of Coulomb energy and show that, for three charges, a pitchfork bifurcation takes place accompanied by an effect of the Euler's Buckling Beam type.

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