Equilibria of point charges on convex curves

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2015.07.024zbMATH Open1368.70005arXiv1503.04284OpenAlexW1940203474MaRDI QIDQ893242FDOQ893242

Authors: Giorgi Khimshiashvili, G. Panina, Dirk Siersma 

Publication date: 13 November 2015

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the equilibrium positions of three points on a convex curve under influence of the Coulomb potential. We identify these positions as orthotripods, three points on the curve having concurrent normals. This relates the equilibrium positions to the caustic (evolute) of the curve. The concurrent normals can only meet in the core of the caustic, which is contained in the interior of the caustic. Moreover, we give a geometric condition for three points in equilibrium with positive charges only. For the ellipse we show that the space of orthotripods is homeomorphic to a 2-dimensional bounded cylinder.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04284

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zbMATH Keywords

equilibriumCoulomb potentialevolutepoint chargeconcurrent normals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15) Statics (70C20)

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