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We study probability measures that minimize the Riesz energy with respect to the geodesic distance $\vartheta (x,y)$ on projective spaces $\mathbb{FP}^d$ (such energies arise from the 1959 conjecture of Fejes T\'oth about sums of non-obtuse…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Dmitriy Bilyk , Ryan W. Matzke , Joel Nathe

Let A be a compact set in the right-half plane and $\Gamma(A)$ the set in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ obtained by rotating A about the vertical axis. We investigate the support of the limit distribution of minimal energy point charges on $\Gamma(A)$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. S. Brauchart , D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff

For $s\geqslant d$, we obtain the leading term as $N\to \infty$ of the maximal weighted $N$-point Riesz $s$-polarization (or Chebyshev constant) for a certain class of $d$-rectifiable compact subsets of $\mathbb{R}^p$. This class includes…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-03-02 S. V. Borodachov , D. P. Hardin , A. Reznikov , E. B. Saff

For Riesz $s$-potentials $K(x,y)=|x-y|^{-s}$, $s>0$, we investigate separation and covering properties of $N$-point configurations $\omega^*_N=\{x_1, \ldots, x_N\}$ on a $d$-dimensional compact set $A\subset \mathbb{R}^\ell$ for which the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Alexander Reznikov , Edward B. Saff , Alexander Volberg

We investigate the asymptotic behavior of minimal $N$-point Riesz $s$-energy on fractal sets of non-integer dimension, with algebraically dependent contraction ratios. For $s$ bigger than the dimension of the set $A$, we prove the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Austin Anderson , Alexander Reznikov

We consider the minimum Riesz $s$-energy problem on the unit disk $\mathbb D:=\{(x_1,\ldots,x_d)\in\mathbb R^d: x_1=0, x_2^2+x_3^2+\ldots+x_d^2\leq 1\}$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^d$, $d\geq 3$, immersed into a smooth rotationally…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Mykhailo Bilogliadov

For a compact $ d $-dimensional rectifiable subset of $ \mathbb{R}^{p} $ we study asymptotic properties as $ N\to\infty $ of $N$-point configurations minimizing the energy arising from a Riesz $ s $-potential $ 1/r^s $ and an external field…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-10-13 D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff , O. V. Vlasiuk

We show that balls, circles and 2-spheres can be identified by generalized Riesz energy among compact submanifolds of the Euclidean space that are either closed or with codimension 0, where the Riesz energy is defined as the double integral…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Jun O'Hara

We introduce and study the unconstrained polarization (or Chebyshev) problem which requires to find an $N$-point configuration that maximizes the minimum value of its potential over a set $A$ in $p$-dimensional Euclidean space. This problem…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Douglas P. Hardin , Mircea Petrache , Edward B. Saff

In this paper we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the Riesz $s$-energy of the first $N$ points of a greedy $s$-energy sequence on the unit circle, for all values of $s$ in the range $0\leq s<\infty$ (identifying as usual the case…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Abey López-García , Douglas A. Wagner

For the Riesz and logarithmic energies, we consider a greedy sequence $(a_n)_{n=0}^\infty$ of points on the unit circle $S^1$ constructed in such a way that for every integer $N\geq 2$, the energy of the configuration…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Abey López-García , Erwin Miña-Díaz

We study the computational complexity of exact cardinality-constrained minimum Riesz $s$-energy subset selection in finite metric spaces: given $n$ points, select $k<n$ points of minimum Riesz $s$-energy. The objective sums inverse-power…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Michael T. M. Emmerich , Ksenia Pereverdieva , André Deutz

Let $\Lambda$ be a lattice in ${\bf R}^d$ with positive co-volume. Among $\Lambda$-periodic $N$-point configurations, we consider the minimal renormalized Riesz $s$-energy $\mathcal{E}_{s,\Lambda}(N)$. While the dominant term in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Douglas P. Hardin , Edward B. Saff , Brian Z. Simanek , Yujian Su

We consider periodic energy problems in Euclidean space with a special emphasis on long-range potentials that cannot be defined through the usual infinite sum. One of our main results builds on more recent developments of Ewald summation to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff , Brian Simanek

We investigate the minimal Riesz s-energy problem for positive measures on the d-dimensional unit sphere S^d in the presence of an external field induced by a point charge, and more generally by a line charge. The model interaction is that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 J. S. Brauchart , P. D. Dragnev , E. B. Saff

We combine hydrodynamic and modulated energy techniques to study the large deviations of systems of particles with pairwise singular repulsive interactions and additive noise. Specifically, we examine periodic Riesz interactions indexed by…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Elias Hess-Childs

It is widely believed that the energy functional $E_p:(\mathbb{S}^2)^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ $$ E_p = \sum_{i,j=1 \atop i \neq j}^{n} \frac{1}{\|x_i-x_j\|^p}$$ has a number of critical points, $\nabla E(x) = 0$, that grows exponentially…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 François Clément , Stefan Steinerberger

We provide a proof of mean-field convergence of first-order dissipative or conservative dynamics of particles with Riesz-type singular interaction (the model interaction is an inverse power $s$ of the distance for any $0<s<d$) when assuming…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Quoc Hung Nguyen , Matthew Rosenzweig , Sylvia Serfaty

We study the Riesz and logarithmic energies on the Grassmannian $\operatorname{Gr}_{2,4}$ of $2$-dimensional subspaces of $\mathbb{R}^4$. We prove that the continuous Riesz and logarithmic energies are uniquely minimized by the uniform…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Ujué Etayo , Pedro R. López-Gómez

We consider Riesz-type nonlocal interaction energies over polygons. We prove the analog of the Riesz inequality in this discrete setting for triangles and quadrilaterals, and obtain that among all $N$-gons with fixed area, the nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Marco Bonacini , Riccardo Cristoferi , Ihsan Topaloglu