The co-circular central configurations of the 5 body problem

Chenciner in 2001 asked: Is the regular n-gon with equal masses the unique central configuration such that all the bodies lie on a circle, and the center of mass coincides with the center of the circle? This question has a positive answer for n = 3. Hampton in 2003 proved that also this question has...

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Autores: Llibre, Jaume|||0000-0002-9511-5999, Valls, Clàudia|||0000-0001-8279-1229
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:145295
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/145295
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s10884-015-9429-y
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:5-body problem
Central configuration
Co-circular central configuration
Regular n-gon
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Sumario:Chenciner in 2001 asked: Is the regular n-gon with equal masses the unique central configuration such that all the bodies lie on a circle, and the center of mass coincides with the center of the circle? This question has a positive answer for n = 3. Hampton in 2003 proved that also this question has a positive answer for n = 4. Here we provide a positive answer for n = 5.