Upper bounds for the number of isolated critical points via the Thom-Milnor theorem

DOI10.1007/S13324-023-00842-6MaRDI QIDQ6076460zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vladimir Zolotov

Publication date 17 October 2023

Published in Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00312

zbMATH Keywords

Newtonian potentialpoint chargespoints of equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B05) Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15)

Abstract: We apply the Thom-Milnor theorem to obtain the upper bounds on the amount of isolated (1) critical points of a potential generated by several fixed point charges(Maxwell's problem on point charges), (2) critical points of SINR, (3) critical points of a potential generated by several fixed Newtonian point masses augmented with a quadratic term, (4) central configurations in the $n$-body problem. In particular, we get an exponential bound for Maxwell's problem and the polynomial bound for the case of an "even dimensional" potential in Maxwell's problem.

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