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- From: chernoff@garnet.Berkeley.EDU (Paul R. Chernoff)
- Subject: Re: Geometry Conjecture
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- In article <1d9q1sINN9ms@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> sutin@helios.ucsc.edu (Brian Sutin) writes:
- >I need the following result (which may be common knowledge):
- >
- >Let D be a region of R^3 with a reasonable boundary S and let dS be any
- >measure on the surface of D. If
- >
- > INT(S){ 1/|x - y| dS(y) } = 1 for all x in D,
- >
- >then D must be an R^3 ball.
- >
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- This is certainly false if dS is allowed to be *any* measure. For
- let S be any nice closed surface in R^3. Think of S as a conductor and
- let dS represent an equilibrium distribution of positive charge on S;
- then the field inside S is 0 and the potential is constant. (For the case
- of an ellipsoid, where it is shown explicitly that dS is a positive measure,
- see Kellogg, Foundations of Potential Theory, pp 188-191.)
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