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Register a new userOptimality of the triangular lattice for Lennard-Jones type lattice energies: a computer-assisted method
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2021
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English
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Laurent Betermin
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It is well-known that any Lennard-Jones type potential energy must a have periodic ground state given by a triangular lattice in dimension 2. In this paper, we describe a computer-assisted method that rigorously shows such global minimality result among $2$-dimensional lattices once the exponents of the potential have been fixed. The method is applied to the widely used classical $(12,6)$ Lennard-Jones potential, which is the main result of this work. Furthermore, a new bound on the inverse density (i.e. the co-volume) for which the triangular lattice is minimal is derived, improving those found in [L. Betermin and P. Zhang, Commun. Contemp. Math., 17 (2015), 1450049] and [L. Betermin, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 48 (2016), 3236-3269]. The same results are also shown to hold for other exponents as additional examples and a new conjecture implying the global optimality of a triangular lattice for any parameters is stated.
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