On Separation of Minimal Riesz Energy Points on Spheres in Euclidean Spaces

A. B. J. Kuijlaars, E. B. Saff, X. Sun

For the unit sphere S^d in Euclidean space R^(d+1), we show that for d-1<s<d and any N>1, discrete N-point minimal Riesz s-energy configurations are well separated in the sense tha…