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Oct 19, 2023 at 18:36 vote accept Subhajit Jana
Oct 19, 2023 at 13:24 comment added Christian Remling @SubhajitJana: It does look arbitrary, but it's a basic notion in potential theory (or rather a generalized version of this here), it's called the $s$ energy of $\mu$. It gives an idea of how small a set $C$ is when one minimizes $I_s(\mu)$ over all probability measures $\mu$ supported by $C$. It's easier to keep $I_s(\mu)$ finite for a larger set since one can try a spread out $\mu$.
Oct 19, 2023 at 7:30 comment added Subhajit Jana Thanks! I am not an expert in this field. What is the motivation behind considering the double integral in the first display? A priori, it seems to be quite ad hoc.
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