Conjectured convergence of electrostatic energy for Apollonian gaskets

Let CT\mathcal C_T be the set of gasket points used in the source, let d(p,q)d(p,q) denote the distance between points, and define the normalized electrostatic energy by

G(T):=1T2δp,qCT\pq1d(p,q).G(T):=\frac{1}{T^{2\delta}}\sum_{\substack{p,q\in\mathcal C_T\p\neq q}}\frac{1}{d(p,q)}.

Electrostatic energy convergence conjecture. There exists a constant b>0b>0 such that

limTG(T)=b.\lim_{T\rightarrow\infty}G(T)=b.

The normalization is chosen to match the electrostatic energy of an array of electrons up to the factor T2δT^{-2\delta}. Numerical experiments suggest convergence to a positive constant, but no proof or resolution is supplied here.

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Primary source

Weiru Chen, Mo Jiao, Calvin Kessler, Amita Malik and Xin Zhang, “Spatial Statistics of Apollonian Gaskets”, arXiv:1705.06212 (2017).

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