Central configurations and mutual differences

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

E c o n g {m a t h b b R}^{d}

, for

j = 1, l d o t s, n

. We show that the vector of the mutual differences

satisfies the equation

, where

P_{m}

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00480

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