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Creating spherical initial conditions in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations that are spherically conformal is a difficult task. Here, we describe two algorithmic methods for evenly distributing points on surfaces, that when paired…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Cody Raskin , J. Michael Owen

This paper provides a survey of spherical designs and their applications, with a particular emphasis on the perspective of ``numerical analysis''. A set \(X_N\) of \(N\) points on the unit sphere \(\mathbb{S}^d\) is called a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Congpei An , Xiaosheng Zhuang

How should we place $n$ great circles on a sphere to minimize the furthest distance between a point on the sphere and its nearest great circle? Fejes T\'oth conjectured that the optimum is attained by placing $n$ circles evenly spaced all…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Yufei Zhao

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the maximum interpoint distance of random points in a planar bounded set with an unique major axis and a boundary behaving like an ellipse at the endpoints. Our main result covers the case of uniformly…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-08 Michael Schrempp

The set of points in a metric space is called an $s$-distance set if pairwise distances between these points admit only $s$ distinct values. Two-distance spherical sets with the set of scalar products $\{\alpha, -\alpha\}$,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Alexey Glazyrin , Wei-Hsuan Yu

In this paper we study the subset sum problem with real numbers. Starting from the given problem, we formulate a quadratic maximization problem over a polytope, P, which is eventually written as a distance maximization to a fixed point over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Marius Costandin

In this note we will consider the question when from the appropriate behavior of a sequence of points on caps we can conclude that the sequence is uniformly distributed on the sphere.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-05-13 Aljosa Volcic

Uniformly distributed point sets on the unit sphere with and without symmetry constraints have been found useful in many scientific and engineering applications. Here, a novel variant of the Thomson problem is proposed and formulated as an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Cheng Guan Koay

Thomson problem is a classical problem in physics to study how $n$ number of charged particles distribute themselves on the surface of a sphere of $k$ dimensions. When $k=2$, i.e. a 2-sphere (a circle), the particles appear at equally…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Parameswaran Raman , Jiasen Yang

A problem that is simple to state in the context of spherical geometry, and that seems rather interesting, appears to have been unexamined to date in the mathematical literature. The problem can also be recast as a problem in the real…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Michael Q. Rieck

We determine the maximal number of systoles among all spheres with $n$ punctures endowed with a complete Riemannian metric of finite area.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Sebastian Baader , Jasmin Jörg

In this paper we investigate the Erd\"os/Falconer distance conjecture for a natural class of sets statistically, though not necessarily arithmetically, similar to a lattice. We prove a good upper bound for spherical means that have been…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alex Iosevich , Misha Rudnev

The problem of (non)random distribution of points on sphere and in space is investigated. The procedure for obtaining preferred direction (and plane) for points on the sphere (in the sky) and in the space is discussed. At present,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jozef Klacka

Huemer et al. (Discrete Mathematics, 2019) proved that for any two point sets $R$ and $B$ with $|R|=|B|$, the perfect matching that matches points of $R$ with points of $B$, and maximizes the total \emph{squared} Euclidean distance of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Sergey Bereg , Oscar Chacón-Rivera , David Flores-Peñaloza , Clemens Huemer , Pablo Pérez-Lantero , Carlos Seara

Motivated by the problem of computing the distribution of the largest distance $d_{\max}$ between $n$ random points on a circle we derive an explicit formula for the moments of the maximal component of a random vector following a Dirichlet…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Eckhard Schlemm

The spherical cap discrepancy is a widely used measure for how uniformly a sample of points on the sphere is distributed. Being hard to compute, this discrepancy measure is typically replaced by some lower or upper estimates when designing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Holger Heitsch , René Henrion

We study the spatial distribution of point sets on the sphere obtained from the representation of a large integer as a sum of three integer squares. We examine several statistics of these point sets, such as the electrostatic potential,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Jean Bourgain , Zeév Rudnick , Peter Sarnak

Two averaging algorithms are considered which are intended for choosing an optimal plane and an optimal circle approximating a group of points in three-dimensional Euclidean space.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

In this article we consider the distribution of $N$ points on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ interacting via logarithmic potential. A characterization theorem of the stationary configurations is derived when $N=d+2$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 P. D. Dragnev

In this paper, we prove the existence of a spherical $t$-design formed by adding extra points to an arbitrarily given point set on the sphere and, subsequently, deduce the existence of nested spherical designs. Estimates on the number of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Ruigang Zheng , Xiaosheng Zhuang