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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

The main subject of this paper is equilibrium problems on an unbounded conductor $\Sigma$ of the complex plane in the presence of a weakly admissible external field. An admissible external field $Q$ on $\Sigma$ satisfies, along with other…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Ramón Orive , Joaquín F. Sánchez Lara , Franck Wielonsky

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

Equilibrium measures in the real axis in the presence of rational external fields are considered. These external fields are called rational since their derivatives are rational functions. We analyze the evolution of the equilibrium measure,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Ramón Orive , Joaquín Sánchez Lara

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 consider the minimal energy problem on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ in the presence of an external field $Q$, where the energy arises from the Riesz potential $1/r^s$ (where $r$ is the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 Johann S. Brauchart , Peter D. Dragnev , Edward 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

In this paper equilibrium measures in the presence of external fields created by fixed charges are analyzed. These external fields are a particular case of the so-called rational external fields (in the sense that their derivatives are…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-05-09 Ramon Orive , Joaquin F. Sanchez Lara

We study the logarithmic equilibrium problem on the interval $[-1,1]$ in the presence of an external field generated by a uniform background charge supported on the same interval. For a real parameter $\tau$, the external field is taken to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 James Kessinger , Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein

We compute the equilibrium measure in dimension d=s+4 associated to a Riesz s-kernel interaction with an external field given by a power of the Euclidean norm. Our study reveals that the equilibrium measure can be a mixture of a continuous…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Djalil Chafaï , Edward B. Saff , Robert S. Womersley

We study the equilibrium measure for a logarithmic potential in the presence of an external field V*(x) + tp(x), where t is a parameter, V*(x) is a smooth function and p(x) a monic polynomial. When p(x) is of an odd degree, the equilibrium…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Tamara Grava , Fei-Ran Tian

The goal of this paper is to develop some basic harmonic analysis tools for the Dirichlet Laplacian in the exterior domain associated to a smooth convex obstacle in dimensions $d\geq 3$. Specifically, we will discuss analogues of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-12 Rowan Killip , Monica Visan , Xiaoyi Zhang

We consider Riesz energy problems with radial external fields. We study the question of whether or not the equilibrium is the uniform distribution on a sphere. We develop general necessary as well as general sufficient conditions on the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Djalil Chafaï , Ryan W. Matzke , Edward B. Saff , Minh Quan H. Vu , Robert S. Womersley

The aim of this paper is to provide a complete analysis of the Coulomb equilibrium problem in the euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq2$, associated to the kernel $1/|x|^{d-2}$, with a non-convex external field created by an…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 R. Orive , F. Wielonsky

The aim of this note is to provide a full space quadratic external field extension of a classical result of Marcel Riesz for the equilibrium measure on a ball with respect to Riesz s-kernels. We address the case s=d-3 for arbitrary…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Djalil Chafaï , Edward B. Saff , Robert S. Womersley

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

We consider the equilibrium problem for an external background potential in weighted potential theory, and show that for a large class of background potentials there is a complementarity relationship between the measure solving the weighted…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-09-23 Joakim Roos

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 establish the theory of balayage for the Riesz kernel $|x-y|^{\alpha-n}$, $\alpha\in(0,2]$, on $\mathbb R^n$, $n\geqslant3$, alternative to that suggested in the book by Landkof. A need for that is caused by the fact that the balayage in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Natalia Zorii

We review our recent results on the problem of optimizing Riesz means of Laplace eigenvalues among convex sets of given measure in the regime where the cut-off parameter in the definition of the Riesz means tends to infinity. We show that…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Rupert L. Frank , Simon Larson
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