Dynamics of Particles on a Curve with Pairwise Hyper-singular Repulsion

Abstract

We investigate the large time behavior of $N$ particles restricted to a smooth closed curve in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ and subject to a gradient flow with respect to Euclidean hyper-singular repulsive Riesz $s$-energy with $s>1.$ We show that regardless of their initial positions, for all $N$ and time $t$ large, their normalized Riesz $s$-energy will be close to the $N$-point minimal possible. Furthermore, the distribution of such particles will be close to uniform with respect to arclength measure along the curve.