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We study the equilibrium measure on the two dimensional sphere in the presence of an external field generated by r+1 equal point charges that are symmetrically located around the north pole. The support of the equilibrium measure is known…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Juan G. Criado del Rey , Arno B. J. Kuijlaars

The problem of the equilibrium state of the charged many-particle system above dielectric surface is formulated.We consider the case of the presence of the external attractive pressing field and the case of its absence. The equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-21 Dmytro M. Lytvynenko , Yuriy V. Slyusarenko

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 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

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 one-component Coulomb gas on the sphere, consisting on $N$ unit charges interacting via a logarithmic potential, and in the presence of two external charges each of strength proportional to $N$, is considered. There are two spherical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Sung-Soo Byun , Peter J. Forrester , Sampad Lahiry

We evaluate the electrostatic potential and the electrostatic field created by a point charge and an arbitrarly oriented electrical dipole placed near a grounded perfectly conducting sphere. Induced surface charge distributions as well as…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-04-18 F C Santos , A C Tort

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

In this paper we investigate gravitationally bound, spherically symmetric equilibrium configurations consisting of ordinary (polytropic) matter nonminimally coupled to an external chameleon scalar field. We show that this system has static,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Vladimir Folomeev , Douglas Singleton

For surfaces of revolution $B$ in $\R^3$, we investigate the limit distribution of minimum energy point masses on $B$ that interact according to the logarithmic potential $\log (1/r)$, where $r$ is the Euclidean distance between points. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff , H. Stahl

We develop a systematic framework for constructing spherical harmonics on the two-dimensional unit sphere as superpositions of Gaussian beams whose poles form well-separated point configurations. The distributional and analytic properties…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Xiaolong Han

For a positively charged insulated d-dimensional sphere we investigate how the distribution of this charge is affected by proximity to a nearby positive or negative point charge when the system is governed by a Riesz s-potential 1/r^s, s>0,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 Johann S. Brauchart , Peter D. Dragnev , Edward B. Saff

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 analyze the stability of two charged conducting spheres orbiting each other. Due to charge polarization, the electrostatic force between the two spheres deviates significantly from $1/r^2$ as they come close to each other. As a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-06-30 Shubho Banerjee , Bradford Taylor , Anand Banerjee

Various solutions of the kinetic equation for the equilibrium of a gravitating sphere of uniform density with a quadratic gravitational potential and a linear dependence of gravitational force on radius are examined. New analytic solutions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-21 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

The exact solution for a static spherically symmetric field outside a charged point particle is found in a non-linear $U(1)$ gauge theory with a logarithmic Lagrangian. The electromagnetic self-mass is finite, and for a particular relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Harald H. Soleng

We present new results concerning the existence of static, electrically charged, perfect fluid spheres that have a regular interior and are arbitrarily close to a maximally charged black-hole state. These configurations are described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Fernando de Felice , Liu Siming , Yu Yunqiang

The purpose of this work is twofold. First, we aim to extend for $0<s<1$ the results of one of the authors about equilibrium measures in the real axis in external fields created by point-mass charges for the case of logarithmic potentials…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-05-10 David Benko , Peter Dragnev , Ramon Orive

This is an investigation into the exact forms of images of point charges in 2D conducting ellipses and 3D prolate spheroids. For an ellipse with exterior point source, we compare two previous expressions for the analytic continuation inside…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Matt Majic

We study a classical model for the atom that considers the movement of $n$ charged particles of charge $-1$ (electrons) interacting with a fixed nucleus of charge $\mu >0$. We show that two global branches of spatial relative equilibria…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Kevin Constantineau , Carlos García-Azpeitia , Jean-Philippe Lessard
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