Equilibrium, regular polygons, and Coulomb-type dynamics in different dimensions (Q2247629)

Summary: The equation of motion in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) of \(n\) generalized point charges interacting via the \(s\)-dimensional Coulomb potential, which contains for \(d=2\) a constant magnetic field, is considered. Planar exact solutions of the equation are found if either negative \(n-1>2\) charges and their masses are equal or \(n=3\) and the charges are different. They describe a motion of negative charges along identical orbits around the positive immobile charge at the origin in such a way that their coordinates coincide with vertices of regular polygons centered at the origin. Bounded solutions converging to an equilibrium in the infinite time for the considered equation without a magnetic field are also obtained. A condition permitting the existence of such solutions is proposed.