An electrostatics approach to the determination of extremal measures (Q5947256)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1660695
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1660695 |
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An electrostatics approach to the determination of extremal measures (English)
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26 April 2002
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The author presents a simple electrostatic interpretation of the Gauss variation principle, which is apparently new and suggests a novel, rather systematic approach to the solution. By means of illustrations, classical results for Jacobi, Laguerre and Freud weights are explicitly recovered by this alternative method.
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logarithmic potential
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external field
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Gauss variation problem
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electrostatic
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