Treffer: Four-body co-circular central configurations

Title:
Four-body co-circular central configurations
Source:
Nonlinearity (Bristol. Print). 25(2):343-370
Publisher Information:
Bristol: Institute of Physics, 2012.
Publication Year:
2012
Physical Description:
print, 30 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Document Type:
Fachzeitschrift Article
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Departament de Matematica Aplicada III, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, C. Jordi Girona, 31, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610, United States
ISSN:
0951-7715
Rights:
Copyright 2015 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Mathematics

Theoretical physics
Accession Number:
edscal.25499522
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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We classify the set of central configurations lying on a common circle in the Newtonian four-body problem. Using mutual distances as coordinates, we show that the set of four-body co-circular central configurations with positive masses is a two-dimensional surface, a graph over two of the exterior side-lengths. Two symmetric families, the kite and isosceles trapezoid, are investigated extensively. We also prove that a co-circular central configuration requires a specific ordering of the masses and find explicit bounds on the mutual distances. In contrast to the general four-body case, we show that if any two masses of a four-body co-circular central configuration are equal, then the configuration has a line of symmetry.