Mystery of point charges

DOI10.1112/plms/pdm012zbMath1128.31001arXivmath-ph/0409009OpenAlexW2119433023MaRDI QIDQ5308198

Andrei Gabrielov, Boris Zalmanovich Shapiro, Dmitri Novikov

Publication date: 27 September 2007

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0409009

zbMATH Keywords

exact upper boundequilibrium points for a potential of several fixed point charges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B05)

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