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On the finiteness of four-body central configurations

Dynamical Systems 2023-02-01 v2 Mathematical Physics Algebraic Geometry math.MP

Abstract

The number of central configurations in the four body problem was proved to be finite, first by Hampton and Moeckel, then by Albouy and Kaloshin, when the masses are all positive. We prove that the four-body central configurations are finite for any four nonzero masses.

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@article{arxiv.2103.08906,
  title  = {On the finiteness of four-body central configurations},
  author = {Xiang Yu and Shuqiang Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.08906},
  year   = {2023}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2103.06037