Planar central configurations as fixed points

DOI10.1007/S11784-007-0032-7MaRDI QIDQ926610zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Davide L. Ferrario

Publication date 20 May 2008

Published in Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204198

zbMATH Keywords

fixed point indexfixed points\(O(2)\)-invariancecollinear configurationsgeneralized Moulton-Smale theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fixed-point and coincidence theorems (topological aspects) (54H25) (n)-body problems (70F10)

Abstract: Planar central configurations can be seen as critical points of the reduced potential or solutions of a system of equations. By the homogeneity and invariance of the potential with respect to SO(2), it is possible to see that the SO(2)-orbits of central configurations are fixed points of a suitable map f. The purpose of the paper is to define this map and to derive some properties using topological fixed point theory. The generalized Moulton-Smale theorem for collinear configurations is proved, together with some estimates on the number of central configurations in the case of 3 bodies, using fixed point indexes. Well-known results such as the compactness of the set of central configuration can also be proved in an easy way in this topological framework. At the end of the paper some tables of (numerical) planar central configurations of n equal masses with Newtonian potential are given, for n=3,..., 10. They have been computed as the fixed points of a suitable self-map of R^{2(n-2)}.

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