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We obtain a formula for determining the capacity of a compact set in the external field created by a spherically normalized logarithmic potential of a measure supported outside the compact set.
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Buslaev, 2015, published in Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, 2015, Vol. 290, pp. 254–271.
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Buslaev, V.I. Capacity of a compact set in a logarithmic potential field. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 290, 238–255 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543815060218
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