Exact General Solutions to Extraordinary N-body Problems
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
We solve the N-body problems in which the total potential energy is any function of the mass-weighted root-mean-square radius of the system of N point masses. The fundamental breathing mode of such systems vibrates non-linearly for ever. If the potential is supplemented by any function that scales as the inverse square of the radius there is still no damping of the fundamental breathing mode. For such systems a remarkable new statistical equilibrium is found for the other coordinates and momenta, which persists even as the radius changes continually.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9808173,
title = {Exact General Solutions to Extraordinary N-body Problems},
author = {D. Lynden-Bell and R. M. Lynden-Bell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9808173},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
15 pages, LaTeX. Accepted for publication in Proc. Roy. Soc. A