Central configurations and mutual differences

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Abstract: Central configurations are solutions of the equations , where U denotes the potential function and each is a point in the d-dimensional Euclidean space EcongmathbbRd, for j=1,ldots,n. We show that the vector of the mutual differences satisfies the equation , where Pm is the orthogonal projection over the spaces of 1-cocycles and . It is shown that differences of central configurations are critical points of an analogue of U, defined on the space of 1-cochains in the Euclidean space E, and restricted to the subspace of 1-cocycles. Some generalizations of well known facts follow almost immediately from this approach.









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