"English scientists solve one of the great mathematical challenges: The estimate of" Fekete points " have applications in physics and medicine."
A team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) has resolved one of the "enigmas" convoluted mathematical, which for a century refused to scientists around the world. Problem is so-called Fekete points, which poses how to distribute a finite number of points - particles - on a sphere to obtain a stable configuration. The less is the potential energy of the set of points, the lower the chaos of the portfolio and therefore more stable configuration.
The challenge in the absence of validation of the scientific community at an upcoming conference, has been solved by Enrique Bendito, Andrés Encinas, Angeles Carmona and José M. Gesture, with the help of supercomputer Finisterrae, placing in the Supercomputing Center of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela) and considered the largest shared memory of Europe. The computer work required in February some 350,000 hours of calculation, rather than with a home computer would have taken forty years of work.
Fekete points were ranked at number 7 on the list of outstanding issues mathematician Stephen Smale, grouping the 18 most important problems and difficulty today.
UPC Mathematicians have solved the positioning of tens of thousands of points in 50 million combinations, as previous researchers had not exceeded two thousand points. The solution to the problem have applications in the formation of molecules, crystal structures, protein design, gas dynamics ...
To view the full study, see pdf, here.
The challenge in the absence of validation of the scientific community at an upcoming conference, has been solved by Enrique Bendito, Andrés Encinas, Angeles Carmona and José M. Gesture, with the help of supercomputer Finisterrae, placing in the Supercomputing Center of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela) and considered the largest shared memory of Europe. The computer work required in February some 350,000 hours of calculation, rather than with a home computer would have taken forty years of work.
Fekete points were ranked at number 7 on the list of outstanding issues mathematician Stephen Smale, grouping the 18 most important problems and difficulty today.
UPC Mathematicians have solved the positioning of tens of thousands of points in 50 million combinations, as previous researchers had not exceeded two thousand points. The solution to the problem have applications in the formation of molecules, crystal structures, protein design, gas dynamics ...
To view the full study, see pdf, here.