A comparison of popular point configurations on S^2

DOI10.14658/PUPJ-DRNA-2016-1-2zbMATH Open1370.31001arXiv1607.04590MaRDI QIDQ5355359FDOQ5355359

Authors: T. J. Michaels, D. P. Hardin, E. B. Saff 

Publication date: 7 September 2017

Abstract: There are many ways to generate a set of nodes on the sphere for use in a variety of problems in numerical analysis. We present a survey of quickly generated point sets on $mathbb{S}^2$, examine their equidistribution properties, separation, covering, and mesh ratio constants and present a new point set, equal area icosahedral points, with low mesh ratio. We analyze numerically the leading order asymptotics for the Riesz and logarithmic potential energy for these configurations with total points $N<50,000$ and present some new conjectures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04590

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15)

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