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New central configurations for the planar 5-body problem

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In this paper we show the existence of three new families of planar central configurations for the 5-body problem with the following properties: three bodies are on the vertices of an equilateral triangle and the other two bodies are on a perpendicular bisector.

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  1. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

    Jaume Llibre

  2. Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, CEP 37.500-903, Itajuba, MG, Brazil

    Luis Fernando Mello

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Llibre, J., Mello, L.F. New central configurations for the planar 5-body problem. Celestial Mech Dyn Astr 100, 141–149 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-007-9107-4

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Keywords

  • Planar central configurations
  • 5-Body problem