Geodesic distance Riesz energy on the sphere

Abstract

We study energy integrals and discrete energies on the sphere, in particular, analogs of the Riesz energy with the geodesic distance in place of Euclidean, and observe that the range of exponents for which the uniform distribution optimizes such energies is different from the classical case. We also obtain a general form of the Stolarsky principle, which relates discrete energies to certain $L^2$ discrepancies. This leads to new proofs of discrepancy estimates, as well as the sharp asymptotics of the difference between optimal discrete and continuous energies in the geodesic case.

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