Bilyk–Glazyrin–Matzke–Park–Vlasiuk's discreteness conjecture for p-frame minimizers

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Let p>0p>0, and for a probability measure μ\mu on Sd1\mathbb{S}^{d-1} define the pp-frame energy by

Ip(μ)=Sd1Sd1x,ypdμ(x)dμ(y).I_p(\mu)=\int_{\mathbb{S}^{d-1}}\int_{\mathbb{S}^{d-1}}|\langle x,y\rangle|^p\,d\mu(x)\,d\mu(y).

A minimizer is a probability measure attaining the minimum of this energy. Bilyk–Glazyrin–Matzke–Park–Vlasiuk's discreteness conjecture. For p>2p>2 and p2kp\neq 2k, kNk\in\mathbb{N}, all minimizers of the pp-frame energy are discrete measures. The question concerns the structure of minimizers for the values of pp not covered by the known even-integer cases. The supplied text gives no evidence that this statement has been resolved.

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Maryna Manskova, “Open problems UP24”, arXiv:2504.04845 (2025).

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