Rick Moeckler gave a talk at University of Maryland on this old problem of celestial mechanics: to find the relative equilibria, ie, the configurations of N bodies of given masses which evolves under Newton law just by isometries. Lagrange was the first to find a non-trivial configuration of this type which relates to the position [...]
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Counting equilibria of the planar N-body problem
Posted in talks, tagged Dynamics, n-body problem on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
