Extremal Problems in the Theory of Capacities of Condensers in Locally Compact Spaces. II

Abstract

We continue the investigation of the problem of energy minimum for condensers began in the first part of the present work. Condensers are treated in a certain generalized sense. The main attention is given to the case of classes of measures noncompact in the vague topology. In the case of a positive-definite kernel, we develop an approach to this minimum problem based on the use of both strong and vague topologies in the corresponding semimetric spaces of signed Radon measures. We obtain necessary and (or) sufficient conditions for the existence of minimal measures. We describe potentials for properly determined extremal measures.