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This article is devoted to the study of discrete potentials on the sphere in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for sharp codes. We show that the potentials of most of the known sharp codes attain the universal lower bounds for polarization for spherical…
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We derive and investigate lower bounds for the potential energy of finite spherical point sets (spherical codes). Our bounds are optimal in the following sense -- they cannot be improved by employing polynomials of the same or lower degrees…
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