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

DOI10.1007/S12346-015-0170-ZzbMATH Open1336.70027arXiv1501.00694OpenAlexW3123831009MaRDI QIDQ904886FDOQ904886

Authors: Alain Albouy 

Publication date: 14 January 2016

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

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.

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

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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)

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