Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5774967 | Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications | 2017 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
There are two symmetric families of four-body co-circular central configurations, namely the kite and isosceles trapezoid. Using mutual distances as coordinates, we prove that if the four-body central configuration is an isosceles trapezoid, then the diagonals of the isosceles trapezoid cannot be perpendicular to each other. Furthermore, we show that for any four-body co-circular central configuration, the diagonals of the quadrilateral cannot be perpendicular except that the configuration is a kite.
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Authors
Yiyang Deng, Bingyu Li, Shiqing Zhang,