Saari's Conjecture for Elliptical Motions and Minimizing Solutions of the N-body Problem
Saari's Conjecture for Elliptical Motions and Minimizing Solutions of the N-body Problem
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DOI:
10.1137/140987663
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发表时间:
2016-02
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通讯作者:
Xiang Yu;Shiqing Zhang
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作者:
Xiang Yu;Shiqing Zhang
Using an arithmetic lemma of Kronecker's and some standard expansions in Fourier series, we prove Saari's conjecture for the elliptical type Newtonian N-body problem, and we apply the result to prove that the variational minimal solutions for the planar Newtonian N-body problem are precisely those relative equilibrium solutions whose configurations are minimizing central configurations. We notice that we do not need the hypothesis on finiteness of central configurations, which is a conjecture far from the complete proof but needed in previous studies of the problem. For the planetary restricted problem (which ignores all the mutual gravitational interactions between the planets), we deduce the corresponding Saari's conjecture and its proof.