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Periodic Solutions of the Planar N-Center Problem with topological constraints

Dynamical Systems 2015-09-17 v2

Abstract

In the planar NN-center problem, for a non-trivial free homotopy class of the configuration space satisfying certain mild condition, we show that there is at least one collision free TT-periodic solution for any positive T.T. We use the direct method of calculus of variations and the main difficulty is to show that minimizers under certain topological constraints are free of collision.

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@article{arxiv.1507.02883,
  title  = {Periodic Solutions of the Planar N-Center Problem with topological constraints},
  author = {Guowei Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.02883},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

34 pages, 5 figures, major revision in section 4, minor revision in section 1