Positive elliptic-elliptic rotopulsators on Clifford tori of nonconstant size project onto regular polygons

Abstract: Let

q_{1}

,...,

q_{n}

be the position vectors of the point masses of the curved

n

-body problem. Consider any positive elliptic-elliptic rotopulsator solution

,

i i n 1, ..., n

, where

are constants,

p h i

,

h e t a

,

r

and

h o

are twice-differentiable, continuous, nonconstant functions,

r^{2} + h o^{2} = 1

,

r g e q 0

and

h o g e q 0

. We prove that the if the configuration of the point masses is of nonconstant size, the configuration of the vectors

(r c o s (h e t a + a l p h a_{i}), r s i n (h e t a + a l p h a_{i}))^{T}

is a regular polygon, as is the configuration of the vectors

,

i i n 1, ..., n

.

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