Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8255862 Journal of Geometry and Physics 2018 18 Pages PDF
Abstract
Consider the equal mass planar 4-body problem with a potential corresponding to an inverse cube force. The Jacobi-Maupertuis principle reparametrizes the dynamics as geodesics of a certain metric. We compute the curvature of this metric in the reduced space on the collinear and parallelogram invariant surfaces and observe some dynamical consequences.
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