Five-point triangular bipyramid or square-pyramid energy conjecture
Five-point triangular bipyramid or square-pyramid energy conjecture
Let be the unit sphere, and let a completely monotonic potential function be a potential function whose derivatives alternate in sign on the relevant domain. For five points on , consider the energy obtained by summing the potential over all pairwise distances. Five-point energy conjecture. For each completely monotonic potential function, either the triangular bipyramid or a square pyramid minimizes energy for points in . This concerns the first number of points for which universal optimality fails; the triangular bipyramid is an equilibrium for every potential, while the optimal square-pyramid latitude may depend on the potential function.
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Henry Cohn, “Packing, coding, and ground states”, arXiv:1603.05202 (2016).
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