{ "id": "2205.02755", "version": "v1", "published": "2022-05-05T16:31:18.000Z", "updated": "2022-05-05T16:31:18.000Z", "title": "A lower bound for the logarithmic energy on $\\mathbb{S}^2$ and for the Green energy on $\\mathbb{S}^n$", "authors": [ "Carlos Beltrán", "Fátima Lizarte" ], "comment": "17 pages", "categories": [ "math.CA" ], "abstract": "We show an alternative proof of the sharpest known lower bound for the logarithmic energy on the unit sphere $\\mathbb{S}^2$. We then generalize this proof to get new lower bounds for the Green energy on the unit $n$-sphere $\\mathbb{S}^n$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2022-05-05T16:31:18.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "31C12", "31C20", "41A60" ], "keywords": [ "lower bound", "green energy", "logarithmic energy" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 17, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }