Discrepancy, separation and Riesz energy of finite point sets on the unit sphere

Advances in Computational Mathematics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-43

  Leopardi, Paul ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Riesz energy; Separation; Sphere; Spherical cap discrepancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879249137     PISSN: 10197168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10444-011-9266-4     Document Type: Article

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