Classification of symmetry groups for planar n-body choreographies — mentioned by ColinWright

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:41:38 GMT

The paper is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0470 Classification of symmetry groups for planar n-body choreographies James Montaldi, Katrina Steckles (Submitted on 2 May 2013) Since the foundational work of Chenciner and Montgomery in 2000 there has been a great deal of interest in choreographic solutions of the n-body problem: periodic motions where the n bodies all follow one another at regular intervals along a closed path. The principal approach combines variational methods with symmetry properties. In this paper, we give a systematic treatment of the symmetry aspect. In the first part we…

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Classification of symmetry groups for planar n-body choreographies — mentioned by ColinWright