On separation of minimal Riesz energy points on spheres in Euclidean spaces

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 172-180

  Kuijlaars, A B J ^a   Saff, E B ^b   Sun, X ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized Thomson problem; Minimal energy; Riesz energy; Separation of mininmal energy points; Spherical potential

Indexed keywords

NUMBER THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GENERALIZED THOMSON PROBLEM; MINIMAL ENERGY; MININMAL ENERGY POINTS; RIESZ ENERGY; SPHERICAL POTENTIAL;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 33748953694     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2005.04.074     Document Type: Article

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