Universal sharpness of the four-point bound for five particles on the sphere

Let E2E_2 denote the second relaxation, or four-point bound, in the semidefinite hierarchy for energy minimization. For five particles on S2S^2, consider all completely monotonic pair potentials in the squared chordal distance. Universal sharpness conjecture. The bound E2E_2 is universally sharp for five particles on S2S^2, meaning that it gives the ground-state energy for every such pair potential. This would imply sharpness across the phase transition between the triangular-bipyramid and square-pyramid minimizers, but the conjecture is not proved.

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David de Laat, “Moment methods in energy minimization: New bounds for Riesz minimal energy problems”, arXiv:1610.04905 (2019).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1003.3053.

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