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We study the indices of the geodesic central configurations on $\H^2$. We then show that central configurations are bounded away from the singularity set. With Morse's inequality, we get a lower bound for the number of central…
Paul Erd\H{o}s posed the question of whether every measurable planar set of infinite Lebesgue measure contains the four vertices of an isosceles trapezoid of unit area. In this paper, we provide an affirmative answer to this question.…
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