Five-body choreography on the algebraic lemniscate is a potential motion
Abstract
In a remarkable paper of 2003 by Fujiwara et al. \cite{Fujiwara2003}, a figure-eight three-body choreography on the algebraic lemniscate by Bernoulli was discovered. Such a choreography was found to be driven by the action of a pairwise potential , depending only on the mutual relative distances . In the present Letter we show that two different choreographies of five bodies on the same algebraic lemniscate exist and correspond to solutions of ten coupled Newton equations of motion with a pairwise interaction potential. For each choreography the explicit form of the potential is found and ten constants of motion are presented, thus, it is superintegrable.
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@article{arxiv.1808.07158,
title = {Five-body choreography on the algebraic lemniscate is a potential motion},
author = {Juan Carlos Lopez Vieyra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.07158},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Title was changed. Non essential changes were made to improve the presentation. 6 pages preprint Letter, 4 figures