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The following problem is due toL. Fejes Tóth: For a given sort of lamps letf(x) be the intensity of brightness in each point having distancex from the foot of the lamp. How must infinitely many lamps of this kind be arranged on a both-side infinite rectilinear road, such that the infimum of the intensities of brightness, extended over the whole street, is maximal, subject to the condition that the average number of lamps per kilometer is bounded by a fixed number (“Best distributions”)? The main result of this paper is: Iff is strictly convex, the equidistant distribution is best.
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Fischer, R. Über die optimale Beleuchtung einer geraden Straße. Monatshefte für Mathematik 79, 191–199 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01304072
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