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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 derive the complete asymptotic expansion in terms of powers of $N$ for the geodesic $f$-energy of $N$ equally spaced points on a rectifiable simple closed curve $\Gamma$ in ${\mathbb R}^p$, $p\geq2$, as $N \to \infty$. For $f$ decreasing…

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

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 study $N$-particle systems in R^d whose interactions are governed by a hypersingular Riesz potential $|x-y|^{-s}$, $s>d$, and subject to an external field. We provide both macroscopic results as well as microscopic results in the limit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-09 Douglas P. Hardin , Thomas Leblé , Edward B. Saff , Sylvia Serfaty

We study sets of $N$ points on the $d-$dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^d$ minimizing interaction functionals of the type \[ \sum_{i, j =1 \atop i \neq j}^{N}{ f(x_i - x_j)}. \] The main result states that for a class of functions $f$ that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Jianfeng Lu , Stefan Steinerberger

Utilizing frameworks developed by Delsarte, Yudin and Levenshtein, we deduce linear programming lower bounds (as $N\to \infty$) for the Riesz energy of $N$-point configurations on the $d$-dimensional unit sphere in the so-called…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Douglas P. Hardin , Timothy J. Michaels , Edward B. Saff

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

Energy techniques can be used to study the structure of fractal sets; the existence of a measure with finite Riesz energy supported on a set gives information about its dimension, distribution, and density. In this paper, we study…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Rosemarie Bongers

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 small-scale asymptotic behaviour of the cold dark matter density fluctuation power spectrum in the Zel'dovich approximation, without introducing an ultraviolet cut-off. Assuming an initially correlated Gaussian random field and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-08 Sara Konrad , Yonadav Barry Ginat , Matthias Bartelmann

Minimum Riesz energy problems in the presence of an external field are analyzed for a condenser with touching plates. We obtain sufficient and/or necessary conditions for the solvability of these problems in both the unconstrained and the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-04-16 P. D. Dragnev , D. Hardin , E. B. Saff , N. Zorii

Recent work by Hintz--Vasy provides a partial asymptotic analysis of the low-energy limit of scattering for Schr\"odinger operators with a short-range potential. Using a slight refinement of Hintz's algorithm, we complete the asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Ethan Sussman

We study the constrained minimum energy problem with an external field relative to the $\alpha$-Riesz kernel $|x-y|^{\alpha-n}$ of order $\alpha\in(0,n)$ for a generalized condenser $\mathbf A=(A_i)_{i\in I}$ in $\mathbb R^n$, $n\geqslant…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-05-01 P. D. Dragnev , B. Fuglede , D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff , N. Zorii

We proceed further with the study of minimum weak Riesz energy problems for condensers with touching plates, initiated jointly with Bent Fuglede (Potential Anal. 51 (2019), 197--217). Having now added to the analysis constraint and external…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Natalia Zorii

The paper Brauchart, Hardin and Saff [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 41(4) (2009)] gives the complete asymptotic expansions of the Riesz $s$-energy of the $N$th roots of unity which form a universally optimal distribution of points on the unit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-10 J. S. Brauchart

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

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 survey known results and present estimates and conjectures for the next-order term in the asymptotics of the optimal logarithmic energy and Riesz $s$-energy of $N$ points on the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$, $d\geq 1$. The…

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

The paper deals with minimum energy problems in the presence of external fields with respect to the Riesz kernels $|x-y|^{\alpha-n}$, $0<\alpha<n$, on $\mathbb R^n$, $n\geqslant2$. For quite a general (not necessarily lower semicontinuous)…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Natalia Zorii

The Hausdorff dimension of a set can be detected using the Riesz energy. Here, we consider situations where a sequence of points, $\{x_n\}$, ``fills in'' a set $E \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ in an appropriate sense and investigate the degree to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Hari Sarang Nathan