Experimental Study of Energy-Minimizing Point Configurations on Spheres

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DOI10.1080/10586458.2009.10129052zbMATH Open1185.68771arXivmath/0611451OpenAlexW2152345982MaRDI QIDQ3401653FDOQ3401653

Noah Giansiracusa, Grigoriy Blekherman, Achill Schürmann, E. Kelly, Henry Cohn, Brandon Ballinger

Publication date: 1 February 2010

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we report on massive computer experiments aimed at finding spherical point configurations that minimize potential energy. We present experimental evidence for two new universal optima (consisting of 40 points in 10 dimensions and 64 points in 14 dimensions), as well as evidence that there are no others with at most 64 points. We also describe several other new polytopes, and we present new geometrical descriptions of some of the known universal optima.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611451






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