The Inverse Problem for Nested Polygonal Relative Equilibria

Publication date 6 December 2017

Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) (n)-body problems (70F10) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Inverse problems for systems of particles (70F17) Dynamics of a system of particles, including celestial mechanics (70Fxx)

Abstract: We prove that for some potentials (including the Newtonian one, and the potential of Helmholtz vortices in the plane) relative equilibria consisting of two homothetic regular polygons of arbitrary size can only occur if the masses at each polygon are equal. The same result is true for many regular polygons as long as the ratio between the radii of the polygons are sufficient large. Moreover, under these hypotheses, the relative equilibrium always exist.

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