Spiderweb central configurations

DOI10.1007/S12346-019-00330-YMaRDI QIDQ2282109zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olivier Hénot, Christiane Rousseau

Publication date 6 January 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09915

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10)

Abstract: In this paper we study spiderweb central configurations for the $N$-body problem, i.e configurations given by $N=nimesell+1$ masses located at the intersection points of $ell$ concurrent equidistributed half-lines with $n$ circles and a central mass $m_0$, under the hypothesis that the $ell$ masses on the $i$-th circle are equal to a positive constant $m_i$; we allow the particular case $m_0=0$. We focus on constructive proofs of the existence of spiderweb central configurations, which allow numerical implementation. Additionally, we prove the uniqueness of such central configurations when $ellin2,dots,9$ and arbitrary $n$ and $m_i$; under the constraint $m_{1}geq{m}_{2}geqldotsgeq{m}_n$ we also prove uniqueness for $ellin10,dots,18$ and $n$ not too large. We also give an algorithm providing a rigorous proof of the existence and local unicity of such central configurations when given as input a choice of $n$, $ell$ and $m_0,\mathrm{...},m_n$. Finally, our numerical simulations highlight some interesting properties of the mass distribution.

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