On extremums of sums of powered distances to a finite set of points

DOI10.1007/S10711-012-9804-3MaRDI QIDQ387589zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikolai Nikolov, Rafael Rafailov

Publication date 23 December 2013

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2975

zbMATH Keywords

potentialregular polytopehyperspherepowered distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the extremal properties of the sum ${\displaystyle }$sum_{i=1}^n|MA_i|^{lambda},${\displaystyle }$ where $A_i$ are vertices of a regular simplex, a cross-polytope (orthoplex) or a cube and $M$ varies on a sphere concentric to the sphere circumscribed around one of the given polytopes. We give full characterization for which points on $Gamma$ the extremal values of the sum are obtained in terms of $lambda$. In the case of the regular dodecahedron and icosahedron in $mathbb{R}^3$ we obtain results for which values of $lambda$ the corresponding sum is independent of the position of $M$ on $Gamma$. We use elementary analytic and purely geometric methods.

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