The Gaussian core model in high dimensions

DOI10.1215/00127094-2018-0018MaRDI QIDQ1615253zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henry Cohn, Matthew De Courcy-Ireland

Publication date 2 November 2018

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09684, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1534233620

zbMATH Keywords

random latticeGaussian core modelminimal energylinear programming bound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Discrete potential theory (31C20) Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31)

Abstract: We prove lower bounds for energy in the Gaussian core model, in which point particles interact via a Gaussian potential. Under the potential function $tmapsto{e}^{-alpha{t}^2}$ with $0<alpha<4pi/e$, we show that no point configuration in $mathbf{R}^n$ of density $ho$ can have energy less than $(ho+o(1))(pi/alpha{)}^{n/2}$ as $noinfty$ with $alpha$ and $ho$ fixed. This lower bound asymptotically matches the upper bound of $ho(pi/alpha{)}^{n/2}$ obtained as the expectation in the Siegel mean value theorem, and it is attained by random lattices. The proof is based on the linear programming bound, and it uses an interpolation construction analogous to those used for the Beurling-Selberg extremal problem in analytic number theory. In the other direction, we prove that the upper bound of $ho(pi/alpha{)}^{n/2}$ is no longer asymptotically sharp when $alpha>pie$. As a consequence of our results, we obtain bounds in $mathbf{R}^n$ for the minimal energy under inverse power laws $tmapsto1/t^{n+s}$ with $s>0$, and these bounds are sharp to within a constant factor as $noinfty$ with $s$ fixed.

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