Well-distributed great circles on S^2

DOI10.1007/S00454-018-9994-ZMaRDI QIDQ724943zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Steinerberger

Publication date 26 July 2018

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03805

zbMATH Keywords

Riesz energyintersection of great circlesminimal overlapThomson problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Erd?s problems and related topics of discrete geometry (52C10) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15)

Abstract: Let $C_1,dots,C_n$ denote the $1/n-$neighborhood of $n$ great circles on $mathbb{S}^2$. We are interested in how much these areas have to overlap and prove the sharp bounds ${\displaystyle }$ sum_{i, j = 1 atop i eq j}^{n}{|C_i cap C_j|^s} gtrsim_s �egin{cases} n^{2 - 2s} qquad &mbox{if}~0 leq s < 2 \ n^{-2} log{n} qquad &mbox{if}~s = 2\ n^{1- 3s/2} qquad &mbox{if}~s > 2. end{cases} .${\displaystyle }$ For $s=1$ there are arrangements for which the sum of mutual overlap is uniformly bounded (for the analogous problem in $mathbb{R}^2$ the lower bound is $gtrsimlogn$) and there are strong connections to minimal energy configurations of $n$ charged electrons on $mathbb{S}^2$ (the J. J. Thomson problem).

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