Central Configurations of the 5-Body Problem with Four Infinitesimal Particles
Abstract
We study central configurations of 5-body problem with one dominant particle and four infinitesimal particles. In 2013, Oliveira (Celest Mech Dyn Astron 116:11-20, 2013) showed that the configurations are symmetric when two infinitesimal particles are diametrically opposite. Moreover, in the case of these two particles have the same mass he proved that the number of central configurations is one or two. In this paper, we provide criteria for the number of the central configurations in the general case where these two particles are unequal mass.
- Publication:
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Few-Body Systems
- Pub Date:
- July 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s00601-020-01561-5
- Bibcode:
- 2020FBS....61...26C
- Keywords:
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- 70F10;
- 70F15