Central configurations of the N-body problem via equivariant Morse theory

DOI10.1007/BF00279846zbMath0627.58013OpenAlexW2074817568MaRDI QIDQ1092480

Filomena Pacella

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00279846

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theoryN-body problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) (n)-body problems (70F10)

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