Fixed point indices of central configurations

DOI10.1007/S11784-015-0246-ZMaRDI QIDQ497980zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Davide L. Ferrario

Publication date 25 September 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5817

zbMATH Keywords

\(n\)-body problemcentral configurationrelative equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) (n)-body problems (70F10) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

Abstract: Central configurations of $n$ point particles in $Eapproxmathbb{R}^d$ with respect to a potential function $U$ are shown to be the same as the fixed points of the normalized gradient map $F=-abl{a}_{M}U/lVertabl{a}_{M}UVer{t}_M$, which is an $SO(d)$-equivariant self-map defined on the intertia ellipsoid. We show that the $SO(d)$-orbits of fixed points of $F$ are all fixed points of the map induced on the quotient by $SO(d)$, and give a formula relating their indices (as fixed points) with their Morse indices (as critical points). At the end, we give an example of a non-planar relative equilibrium which is not a central configuration.

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