Minimum Energy Problem on the Hypersphere

2016/04/05 by Bilogliadov, Mykhailo
#31B05 #31B10 #31B15 #Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1604.01115

Abstract

We consider the minimum energy problem on the unit sphere \mathbb S^d-1 in the Euclidean space \mathbb R^d, d≥ 3, in the presence of an external field Q, where the charges are assumed to interact according to Newtonian potential 1/r^d-2, with r denoting the Euclidean distance. We solve the problem by finding the support of the extremal measure, and obtaining an explicit expression for the density of the extremal measure. We then apply our results to an external field generated by a point charge of positive magnitude, placed at the North Pole of the sphere, and to a quadratic external field.

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