On the equilateral pentagonal central configurations
An equilateral pentagon is a polygon in the plane with five sides of equal length. In this paper we classify the central configurations of the 5-body problem having the five bodies at the vertices of an equilateral pentagon with an axis of symmetry. We prove that there are two unique classes of such...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:2072/535412 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/2072/535412 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | 5-body problem Central configuration Equilateral pentagon |
| Resumo: | An equilateral pentagon is a polygon in the plane with five sides of equal length. In this paper we classify the central configurations of the 5-body problem having the five bodies at the vertices of an equilateral pentagon with an axis of symmetry. We prove that there are two unique classes of such equilateral pentagons providing central configurations, one concave equilateral pentagon and one convex equilateral pentagon, the regular one. A key point of our proof is the use of rational parameterizations to transform the corresponding equations, which involve square roots, into polynomial equations. © 2022 Elsevier B.V. |
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