Experimental investigation on the uniqueness of a center of a body

Abstract

The object of our investigation is a point that gives the maximum value of a potential with a strictly decreasing radially symmetric kernel. It defines a center of a body in Rm. When we choose the Riesz kernel or the Poisson kernel as the kernel, such centers are called a radial center or an illuminating center, respectively. The existence of a center is easily shown but the uniqueness does not always hold. Sufficient conditions of the uniqueness of a center have been studied by some researchers. The main results in this paper are some new sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of a center of a body.

17 pages, 22 figures