Riesz external field problems on the hypersphere and optimal point separation

DOI10.1007/S11118-014-9387-8MaRDI QIDQ462301zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johann S. Brauchart, P. D. Dragnev, E. B. Saff

Publication date 20 October 2014

Published in Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2765

zbMATH Keywords

Fekete pointsRiesz potentialexternal fieldminimal energy problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15) Contents, measures, outer measures, capacities (28A12) Discrete potential theory (31C20)

Abstract: We consider the minimal energy problem on the unit sphere $mathbb{S}^d$ in the Euclidean space $mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ in the presence of an external field $Q$, where the energy arises from the Riesz potential $1/r^s$ (where $r$ is the Euclidean distance and $s$ is the Riesz parameter) or the logarithmic potential $log(1/r)$. Characterization theorems of Frostman-type for the associated extremal measure, previously obtained by the last two authors, are extended to the range $d-2leqs<d-1.$ The proof uses a maximum principle for measures supported on $mathbb{S}^d$. When $Q$ is the Riesz $s$-potential of a signed measure and $d-2leqs<d$, our results lead to explicit point-separation estimates for $(Q,s)$-Fekete points, which are $n$-point configurations minimizing the Riesz $s$-energy on $mathbb{S}^d$ with external field $Q$. In the hyper-singular case $s>d$, the short-range pair-interaction enforces well-separation even in the presence of more general external fields. As a further application, we determine the extremal and signed equilibria when the external field is due to a negative point charge outside a positively charged isolated sphere. Moreover, we provide a rigorous analysis of the three point external field problem and numerical results for the four point problem.

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