An electrostatics problem on the sphere arising from a nearby point charge

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

Publication date 24 July 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3367

zbMATH Keywords

Gonchar polynomialsRiesz potentialzeros of polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15) Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15)

Abstract: For a positively charged insulated d-dimensional sphere we investigate how the distribution of this charge is affected by proximity to a nearby positive or negative point charge when the system is governed by a Riesz s-potential 1/r^s, s>0, where r denotes Euclidean distance between point charges. Of particular interest are those distances from the point charge to the sphere for which the equilibrium charge distribution is no longer supported on the whole of the sphere (i.e. spherical caps of negative charge appear). Arising from this problem attributed to A. A. Gonchar are sequences of polynomials of a complex variable that have some fascinating properties regarding their zeros.

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