Fixed point indices of central configurations

DOI10.1007/S11784-015-0246-ZzbMATH Open1327.55001arXiv1412.5817OpenAlexW1583650079MaRDI QIDQ497980FDOQ497980

Authors: Davide L. Ferrario 

Publication date: 25 September 2015

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

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.

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

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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)

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