Inner Riesz pseudo-balayage and its applications to minimum energy problems with external fields

DOI10.1007/S11118-023-10087-4arXiv2301.00385OpenAlexW4385145776MaRDI QIDQ6131709FDOQ6131709

N. Zorii

Publication date: 18 April 2024

Published in: Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For the Riesz kernel $kapp{a}_{a}lpha(x,y):=|x-y{|}^{alpha-n}$, $0<alpha<n$, on $mathbb{R}^n$, $ngeqslant2$, we introduce the inner pseudo-balayage $hat{omega}^A$ of a (Radon) measure $omega$ on $mathbb{R}^n$ to a set $Asubsetmathbb{R}^n$ as the (unique) measure minimizing the Gauss functional [intkappa_alpha(x,y),d(muotimesmu)(x,y)-2intkappa_alpha(x,y),d(omegaotimesmu)(x,y)] over the class $mathcal{E}^{+}(A)$ of all positive measures $mu$ of finite energy, concentrated on $A$. For quite general signed $omega$ (not necessarily of finite energy) and $A$ (not necessarily closed), such $hat{omega}^A$ does exist, and it maintains the basic features of inner balayage for positive measures (defined when $alphaleqslant2$), except for those implied by the domination principle. (To illustrate the latter, we point out that, in contrast to what occurs for the balayage, the inner pseudo-balayage of a positive measure may increase its total mass.) The inner pseudo-balayage $hat{omega}^A$ is further shown to be a powerful tool in the problem of minimizing the Gauss functional over all $muinmathcal{E}^{+}(A)$ with $mu(mathbb{R}^n)=1$, which enables us to improve substantially many recent results on this topic, by strengthening their formulations and/or by extending the areas of their applications. For instance, if $A$ is a quasiclosed set of nonzero inner capacity $c_{*}(A)$, and if $omega$ is a signed measure, compactly supported in $mathbb{R}^{n}setminus{mCl}_{mathbb{R}^n}A$, then the problem in question is solvable if and only if either $c_{*}(A)<infty$, or $hat{omega}^A(mathbb{R}^n)geqslant1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00385

zbMATH Keywords

Riesz kernelminimum Riesz energyinner Riesz balayage

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15)

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