title: Rules for the distribution of point charges on a conducting disk
abstract: The minimum energy configurations of N equal point charges interacting via the Coulomb potential on an infinitely thin conducting disk are determined and the rules for the distribution of charges on the disk are deduced.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey.
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Erkoc
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Oymak