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New equations for central configurations and generic finiteness

Dynamical Systems 2016-08-22 v3

Abstract

We consider the finiteness problem for central configurations of the nn-body problem. We prove that, for n4n\geq4, there exists a (Zariski) closed subset BB in the mass space Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, such that if (m1,...,mn)RnB(m_1,...,m_n) \in \mathbb{R}^n\setminus B, then there is a finite number of corresponding classes of (n2)(n-2)-dimensional central configurations for potential associated to a semi-integer exponent. Also, we obtain trilinear homogeneous polynomial equations of degree 33 for central configurations of fixed dimension and, for each integer k1k \geq 1, we show that the set of mutual distances associated to a kk-dimensional central configuration is contained in a determinantal algebraic set.

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@article{arxiv.1508.06593,
  title  = {New equations for central configurations and generic finiteness},
  author = {Thiago Dias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06593},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

17 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the AMS. Final version, revised according to the referee reports

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