Abstract: We explore the connections between minimizers of the discrete logarithmic energy on the sphere S2, univariate polynomials with optimal condition number in the Shub-Smale sense and a quotient involving norms of polynomials. Our main results are that polynomials with optimal condition number produce spherical points with small logarithmic energy (the reverse result was already known) and a sharp Bombieri type inequality for univariate polynomials with complex coefficients.

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