Equidistribution rate for Fekete points on some real manifolds

Abstract

Let L be a positive line bundle over a compact complex projective manifold X and K be a compact subset of X which is regular in a sense of pluripotential theory. A Fekete configuration of order k is a finite subset of K maximizing a Vandermonde type determinant associated with the power L^k of L. Berman, Boucksom and Witt Nyström proved that the empirical measure associated with a Fekete configuration converges to the equilibrium measure of K as k tends to infinity. Dinh, Ma and Nguyen obtained an estimate for the rate of convergence. Using techniques from Cauchy-Riemann geometry, we show that the last result holds when K is a real nondegenerate C^5-piecewise submanifold of X such that its tangent space at any regular point is not contained in a complex hyperplane of the tangent space of X at that point. In particular, the estimate holds for Fekete points on some compact sets in R^n or the unit sphere in R^{n+1}.