On Gegenbauer Point Processes on the unit interval

Abstract

In this note we compute the logarithmic energy of points in the unit interval $[-1,1]$ chosen from different Gegenbauer Determinantal Point Processes. We check that all the different families of Gegenbauer polynomials yield the same asymptotic result to third order, we compute exactly the value for Chebyshev polynomials and we give a closed expresion for the minimal possible logarithmic energy. The comparison suggests that DPPs cannot match the value of the minimum beyond the third asymptotic term.