Estimating the Number of Stable Configurations for the Generalized Thomson Problem
Given a natural number N, one may ask what configuration of N points on the two-sphere minimizes the discrete generalized Coulomb energy. If one applies a gradient-based numerical optimization to this problem, one encounters many configurations that are stable but not globally minimal. This led the...
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Springer US,
2016-10-20T21:27:18Z.
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