Generic uniqueness of the minimal Moulton central configuration

DOI10.1007/S10569-015-9642-3MaRDI QIDQ748307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Renato Iturriaga, Ezequiel Maderna

Publication date 20 October 2015

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6887

zbMATH Keywords

\(N\)-body problemgenericityhomothetic motionscentral configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10)

Abstract: We prove that, for generic (open and dense) values of the masses, the Newtonian potential function of the collinear N-body problem has $N!/2$ critical values when restricted to a fixed inertia level. In particular, we prove that for generic masses, there is only one minimal Moulton configuration.

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