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Open Problem 1: Are Palmore’s “Ignored Estimates” on the Number of Planar Central Configurations Correct?

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We wish to draw attention on estimates on the number of relative equilibria in the Newtonian n-body problem that Julian Palmore published in 1975.

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Albouy, A. Open Problem 1: Are Palmore’s “Ignored Estimates” on the Number of Planar Central Configurations Correct?. Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst. 14, 403–406 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12346-015-0170-z

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