Timeline for Maximum of the Vandermonde determinant / minimum of the logarithmic energy

7 events

when toggle format	what		by	license	comment
Jun 30, 2015 at 22:01	history	edited	Iosif Pinelis	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 338 characters in body
Jun 30, 2015 at 21:57	comment	added	Iosif Pinelis		Of course, they are the same; sorry for having been too hasty, and thank you for your comment. I have now edited my answer accordingly.
Jun 30, 2015 at 18:45	comment	added	ofer zeitouni		The two forms of Selberg's formula are the same (the form I wrote is from Anderson's proof, which is reproduced in our RMT book with Guionnet; but with some effort, using the n!, you can check they are the same formula). There is a very nice review of Selberg's formula by Forrester, which is highly recommended and entertaining reading. See ams.org/journals/bull/2008-45-04/S0273-0979-08-01221-4/…
Jun 29, 2015 at 3:58	comment	added	Iosif Pinelis		Added a remark that in general the discrete logarithmic energy $2E_{n,a}$ cannot be approximated by its ostensibly more general counterpart $n^2 E_\mu$, for any probability measure $\mu$ on $[0,1]$.
Jun 29, 2015 at 3:56	history	edited	Iosif Pinelis	CC BY-SA 3.0	Added a remark that in general the discrete logarithmic energy $2E_{n,a}$ cannot be approximated by its ostensibly more general counterpart $n^2 E_\mu$, for any probability measure $\mu$ on $[0,1]$.
Jun 28, 2015 at 20:03	history	edited	Iosif Pinelis	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 1 character in body
Jun 28, 2015 at 18:01	history	answered	Iosif Pinelis	CC BY-SA 3.0