Open problem 1: Are Palmore's ``ignored estimates on the number of planar central configurations correct?

DOI10.1007/S12346-015-0170-ZMaRDI QIDQ904886zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alain Albouy

Publication date 14 January 2016

Published in Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00694

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05)

Abstract: We wish to draw attention on estimates on the number of relative equilibria in the Newtonian $n$-body problem that Julian Palmore published in 1975.

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