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In this paper, we use variational minimizing method to prove the existence of hyperbolic solution with a prescribed positive energy for N-body type problems with strong forces. Firstly, we get periodic solutions using suitable constraints,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Donglun Wu , Shiqing Zhang

An approach is developed to find approximate solutions to the classical Newtonian problem of N bodies. Sets of N gravitating bodies having spherically symmetric mass distributions, small angular velocities (< 1 rad/s) and bounded position…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 AbuBakr Mehmood , Syed Umer Abbas Shah , Ghulam Shabbir

We study a singular Hamiltonian system with an $\al$-homogeneous potential that contains, as a particular case, the classical $N$--body problem. We introduce a variational Morse--like index for a class of collision solutions and, using the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vivina Barutello , Simone Secchi

Stationary, axisymmetric, vacuum, solutions of Einstein's equations are obtained as critical points of the total mass among all axisymmetric and $(t,\phi)$ symmetric initial data with fixed angular momentum. In this variational principle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio Dain

We consider the $N$-body problem in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with the newtonian potential $1/r$. We prove that for every initial configuration $x_i$ and for every minimizing normalized central configuration $x_0$, there exists a collision-free…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Ezequiel Maderna , Andrea Venturelli

We resolve a conjecture of Kalai relating approximation theory of convex bodies by simplicial polytopes to the face numbers and primitive Betti numbers of these polytopes and their toric varieties. The proof uses higher notions of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Karim Adiprasito , Eran Nevo , José Alejandro Samper

The main purpose of this paper is to study the existence of least energy sign-changing solutions for Logarithmic weighted $(N,p)$-Laplacian problem in the unit ball $B$ of $\mathbb{R}^{N},$ $N>2$. The non-linearity of the equation is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Rima chetouane , Brahim Dridi , Rached Jaidane

We prove for generalisations of quasi-homogeneous $n$-body problems with center of mass zero and $n$-body problems in spaces of negative constant Gaussian curvature that if the masses and rotation are fixed, there exists, for every order of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Pieter Tibboel

We investigate the relationship between rigid motions and relative equilibria in the N-body problem on the two-dimensional sphere, S2. We prove that any rigid motion of the N-body system on S2 must be a relative equilibrium. Our approach…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Toshiaki Fujiwara , Ernesto Pérez-Chavela , Shuqiang Zhu

We prove that if for the curved $n$-body problem in $\mathbb{S}^{k-1}$, $k\geq 3$, the masses are given, the minimum distance between the point masses of a specific type of relative equilibrium solution that is a generalisation of positive…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-01-24 Pieter Tibboel

When we use variational methods to study the Newtonian $N$-body problem, the main problem is how to avoid collisions. C.Marchal got a remarkable result, that is, a path minimizing the Lagrangian action functional between two given…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Xiang Yu , Shiqing Zhang

Examples are given of solutions of the planar N-body problem which remain the same for at least two systems of masses with the same sum and same center of mass. The least value of N achieved up to now with this property is 474, a number…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Dominique Bang , Alain Chenciner , Carles Simó

In this note we prove an existence result for the Einstein conformal constraint equations for metrics with vanishing Yamabe invariant assuming that the TT-tensor is small in $L^2$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Romain Gicquaud

For the Newtonian (gravitational) $n$-body problem in the Euclidean $d$-dimensional space, the simplest possible solutions are provided by those rigid motions (homographic solutions) in which each body moves along a Keplerian orbit and the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Luca Asselle , Alessandro Portaluri

Newton's problem of the body of minimal aerodynamic resistance is traditionally stated in the class of {\it convex} axially symmetric bodies with fixed length and width. We state and solve the minimal resistance problem in the wider class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-04-28 Alexander Plakhov , Alena Aleksenko

We use Dirac's constraint dynamics to obtain a Hamiltonian formulation of the relativistic N-body problem in a separable two-body basis in which the particles interact pair-wise through scalar and vector interactions. The resultant N-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Cheuk-Yin Wong , Horace W. Crater

Two numerical algorithms for analyzing planar central and balanced configurations in the $(n+1)$-body problem with a small mass are presented. The first one relies on a direct solution method of the $(n+1)$-body problem by using a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Alexandru Doicu , Lei Zhao , Adrian Doicu

This article studies the N-vortex problem in the plane with positive vorticities. After an investigation of some properties for normalised relative equilibria of the system, we use symplectic capacity theory to show that, there exist…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Qun Wang

We prove the existence of relative periodic solutions of the planar $N=\sum_{j=1}^n k_j$-body problem starting with $n$ bodies moving close to a non-degenerate central configuration and replacing each of them with clusters of $k_j$ bodies…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Marine Fontaine , Carlos García-Azpeitia

In this paper, we apply the Ljusternik-Schnirelman theory with local Palais-Smale condition to study a class of N-body problems with strong force potentials and fixed energies. Under suitable conditions on the potential $V$, we prove the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 Pengfei Yuan , Shiqing Zhang