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On the subadditivity of the transfinite diameter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Menahem Schiffer
Menahem Schiffer
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Einstein Institute of PhysicsThe Hebrew UniversityJerusalem
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Let M be a bounded and closed set of points in the complex z plane; d(M), a set-function which is of great importance in potential and function theory, may then be defined as follows. n points z1, z2, …, zn in M are so chosen that the product of the mutual distances

has the greatest possible value Then it can be proved that

exists. Thus the set-function d(M), named by Fekete the transfinite diameter of M, is defined.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , October 1941 , pp. 373 - 383
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1941

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Pólya and Szegö, loc. cit. This property of c(M) follows elementarily from definition (2) of d(M) and the identity (3). This was pointed out by Prof. Fekete in a seminar on the transfinite diameter held at the Hebrew University in 1934. Compare also Nevanlinna, R., Eindeutige analytische Funktionen (Berlin, 1936), p. 120CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Hilfssatz 1.

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