Linear instability of relative equilibria for \(n\)-body problems in the plane

DOI10.1016/j.jde.2014.05.017zbMath1291.70028arXiv1310.8318OpenAlexW1991853296MaRDI QIDQ2250573

Alessandro Portaluri, Riccardo D. Jadanza, Vivina Barutello

Publication date: 7 July 2014

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8318

zbMATH Keywords

relative equilibria\(n\)-body problemspectral flowlogarithmic potentiallinear instabilitypartial signatures\(\alpha\)-homogeneous potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) (n)-body problems (70F10)

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