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We study a large family of axisymmetric Riesz-type singular interaction potentials with anisotropy in three dimensions. We generalize some of the results of our recent work in two dimensions to the present setting. For potentials with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-29 José A. Carrillo , Ruiwen Shu

We continue our investigation of the Gauss variational problem for infinite dimensional vector measures associated with a condenser $(A_i)_{i\in I}$. It has been shown in Potential Anal., DOI:10.1007/s11118-012-9279-8 that, if some of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-07-04 Natalia Zorii

The study deals with a minimal energy problem in the presence of an external field over noncompact classes of vector measures of infinite dimension in a locally compact space. The components are positive measures (charges) satisfying…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-11-05 Natalia Zorii

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 closed subset $K$ of a compact metric space $A$ possessing an $\alpha$-regular measure $\mu$ with $\mu(K)>0$, we prove that whenever $s>\alpha$, any sequence of weighted minimal Riesz $s$-energy configurations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff , J. T. Whitehouse

The study is motivated by the known fact that, in the noncompact case, the main minimum-problem of the theory of interior capacities of condensers in a locally compact space is in general unsolvable, and this occurs even under very natural…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-02-04 Natalia Zorii

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

Focusing first on the inner $\alpha$-harmonic measure $\varepsilon_y^A$ ($\varepsilon_y$ being the unit Dirac measure, and $\mu^A$ the inner $\alpha$-Riesz balayage of a Radon measure $\mu$ to $A\subset\mathbb R^n$ arbitrary), we describe…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Natalia Zorii

In this paper, we investigate Riesz energy problems on unbounded conductors in $\R^d$ in the presence of general external fields $Q$, not necessarily satisfying the growth condition $Q(x)\to\infty$ as $x\to\infty$ assumed in several…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Peter Dragnev , Ramon Orive , Edward B. Saff , Franck Wielonsky

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

We consider the minimal discrete and continuous energy problems on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ in the presence of an external field due to finitely many localized charge distributions on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Johann S. Brauchart , Peter D. Dragnev , Edward B. Saff , Robert S. Womersley

We consider Riesz-type nonlocal energies with general interaction kernels and their discretizations related to particle systems. We prove that the discretized energies $\Gamma$-converge in the weak-$*$ topology to the Riesz functional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Davide Carazzato , Aldo Pratelli , Ihsan Topaloglu

We calculate the first order variation of the Riesz $\alpha$-energy of a log-concave function $f$ with respect to the Asplund sum. Such a variational formula induces the Riesz $\alpha$-energy measure of log-concave function $f$, which will…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Niufa Fang , Deping Ye , Zengle Zhang

We consider the minimization of an energy functional given by the sum of a density perimeter and a nonlocal interaction of Riesz type with exponent $\alpha$, under volume constraint, where the strength of the nonlocal interaction is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Stan Alama , Lia Bronsard , Ihsan Topaloglu , Andres Zuniga

We establish lower semi-continuity and strict convexity of the energy functionals for a large class of vector equilibrium problems in logarithmic potential theory. This in particular implies the existence and uniqueness of a minimizer for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-05-29 Adrien Hardy , Arno B. J. Kuijlaars

Fix $d\geq 2$, and $s\in (d-1,d)$. We characterize the non-negative locally finite non-atomic Borel measures $\mu$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for which the associated $s$-Riesz transform is bounded in $L^2(\mu)$ in terms of the Wolff energy. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Benjamin Jaye , Fedor Nazarov , Maria Carmen Reguera , Xavier Tolsa

We study systems of $n$ points in the Euclidean space of dimension $d \ge 1$ interacting via a Riesz kernel $|x|^{-s}$ and confined by an external potential, in the regime where $d-2\le s<d$. We also treat the case of logarithmic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Mircea Petrache , Sylvia Serfaty

We investigate the Riesz energy minimization problem on a $d$-dimensional ball in the presence of an external field created by a point charge above the ball in $\R^{d+1}$, $d\geq1$. Both cases of an attractive charge and a repulsive charge…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Peter D. Dragnev , Ramon Orive , Eduard B. Saff , Franck Wielonsky

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

We study the minimization of the energy integral $I_K(\mu) = \int_{\Omega} \int_{\Omega} K(x,y) d\mu(x) d\mu(y)$ over all Borel probability measures $\mu$, where $(\Omega,\rho)$ is a compact connected metric space and $K:\Omega^2 \to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Steven B. Damelin , Joel Nathe