The crystallization conjecture: a review
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Abstract: In this article we describe the crystallization conjecture. It states that, in appropriate physical conditions, interacting particles always place themselves into periodic configurations, breaking thereby the natural translation-invariance of the system. This famous problem is still largely open. Mathematically, it amounts to studying the minima of a real-valued function defined on where is the number of particles, which tends to infinity. We review the existing literature and mention several related open problems, of which many have not been thoroughly studied.
The paper is devoted to a review of the crystallization conjecture, studied since 1960, without being solved. Consider a physical system with \(N\) particles. For this system the (crystallization) question is: Does the system become periodic in the limit \(N\to\infty\)? Mathematically, it is related to study the minima of a real-valued function defined on \(\mathbb R^{3N}\). In the paper, the existing literature is reviewed. Several related open problems are mentioned.
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